SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Yemen — humanitarian crisis deepens
It is now almost six years since the Saudi Arabia-led coalition began bombing Yemen — STEVE BISHOP highlights the current issues and required action
Campaigners from Amnesty International carrying a batch of five giant dummy missiles to Downing Street in London, in March 2016
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
SAUDI Arabian forces along with those of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) invaded Yemen in March 2015 to reverse the popular uprising led by Houthi rebels. The Saudis main war aim has been to reinstate the puppet leader, the unelected president Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to power. Hadi fled to Riyadh after being toppled by the Houthis (from north-western Yemen) in September 2014. The Saudis regard the Houthis as being too closely aligned to its major regional rival, Iran.
All of the countries comprising the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) except Oman are supporting the war. Other Arab countries, such as Morocco, Egypt and Jordan, have also offered help.
Britain, the US and nations across the European Union are complicit in the ongoing war in Yemen. The US and Britain are providing intelligence and logistics, while the use of British-made fighter jets and British-made bombs and missiles has had a devastating impact, including the loss of many civilian lives. Britain’s government has supported the coalition with billions of pounds of arms sales.
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