SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.

JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones

Unions and campaigners condemn Home Secretary after government confirms scrapping of care worker visas

GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world

LIZZY SHORT recommends a bracing study of energy intensive AI and the race of such technology towards war profits

RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery

HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come

Hundreds travel to Birmingham to join ‘mega picket’ of striking refuse workers and supporters

Move follows PSL decision to relocate games to United Arab Emirates

The powerhouse Liverpool forward secured a record-breaking 90 per cent of the vote, while Arsenal’s Alessia Russo topped a wide field to win the women’s award, writes JAMES NALTON 

MATTHEW HAWKINS surveys the upcoming programme of contemporary dance in Glasgow, and picks some highlights

JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media

The outcome of the Shakespearean modern-day classic, where legacy was reborn, continues to resonate in the mind of Morning Star boxing writer JOHN WIGHT

As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE

Gunners aim for first European trophy since 2007 when they face Barcelona in the Champions League

The Star's critics MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Backlash: The Murder of George Floyd, The Uninvited, The Surfer, and Motel Destino

No excuses can hide the criminal actions of a Nazi fellow-traveller in this admirably objective documentary, suggests MARTIN HALL

Report reveals Britain exported over 160,000 military items to Tel Aviv since genocide began – most were sent after partial arms exports ban began last September

PAUL DONOVAN relishes a fascinating exploration of the leading lights of the Labour right in the 1970s

World Health Organisation warns that 'current rates of improvement are insufficient'

Zhao becoes China's first world snooker champion

BEN LUNN alerts us to the creeping return of philanthropy and private patronage, and suggests alternative paths to explore

A novel by Argentinian Jorge Consiglio, a personal dictionary by Uruguayan Ida Vitale, and poetry by Mexican Homero Aridjis

MAYER WAKEFIELD laments the lack of audience interaction and social diversity in a musical drama set on London’s Underground

With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD

A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum