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
The US is no honest broker in the Korean peninsula – but its next actions will be critical to the region’s future
Portraits of Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump appear on South Korean TV
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 on-off-maybe Singapore summit between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States has brought an element of farce to a historical relationship that has more often been characterised by tragedy.
Tragedy, though, is still not an entirely unthinkable result of the actions and threats of US President Donald Trump.
In his letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announcing that he was pulling out of the talks, scheduled for June 12, Trump wrote: “Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I felt it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long planned meeting.”
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The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
