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
Thank you to my old friend, ‘Bick,’ for doing what was right
JEREMY CORBYN pays tribute to the late Rodney Bickerstaffe, former general secretary of Unison
The late Rodney Bickerstaffe
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
RODNEY BICKERSTAFFE was an outstanding trade unionist, a great socialist and a committed internationalist as well as a warm and fun loving friend.
I have never forgotten speaking at a 100,000-strong rally at the opening of the World Social Forum in Mumbai in 2004.
It was a huge affair with speakers from across the world such as Arundhati Roy, Shirin Ebadi and Mustafa Barghouti, but as I started to speak, I noticed a hand frantically waving at me from the back of the crowd.
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