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
Germany’s tug-of-war between forces for peace and militarists
The US is raging that Europe's leader might deepen business ties with Russia, so Russophobia over Belarus is once again raging too. Will Germany continue to bristle towards the East and embrace Nato, or does the left have a different path open, asks VICTOR GROSSMAN
The Brandenburg Gate
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
THE gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is stuck; one end near Vyborg in Russia, the other, after a thousand kilometres, under swirling Baltic Sea waters, stalled only 164km short of its safe goal, Sassnitz in eastern Germany.
Donald Trump offered his customary words of wisdom; blustering threats if Germany favours pipelines over ever greater military build-up. His buddies, far-right senators Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Ron Johnson, warned little Sassnitz, population 9,186, of “crushing economic and legal sanctions” if it lets the pipeline land there.
Some German business and political leaders were outraged at this crude interference and consider it far wiser to do business with Russia, selling it cars, chemicals, machinery, and farm products, than kowtowing to arms manufacturers and other war hawks on both sides of the Atlantic.
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