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
Embracing the unthinkable
In the era of climate chaos, we need the courage to build a new, greener world right now, says ALAN SIMPSON
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
IT WASN’T the 130 forest fires raging across the US that got to me, nor Britain’s moorland fires, the torrential storms hitting Belfast, with two months rain in two hours, the lightning strikes that took out train signalling systems across the north of England or the gales causing widespread travel disruptions.
What stopped me in my tracks was something far more subtle.
I’ve come to accept that politics will struggle to address “climate” until the public translates it into “weather.
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