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
Martin Sheen’s new apocalypse
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER chats with the famed actor about why he’s joined the struggle against climate change
Actor Martin Sheen joins climate campaigners in Washington DC to demand a Green New Deal
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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
MARTIN SHEEN has seen the apocalypse at close range and has been president of the United States. But all of that was in his acting career.
On Friday, Sheen, 79, showed up in Washington DC to protest against the most apocalyptical event of our times — the climate crisis.
Sheen is best known for his lead role in the 1979 Francis Ford Coppola Vietnam war epic, Apocalypse Now, and for playing the US president in the popular television series, The West Wing, which ran from 1999-2006.
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