The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
Time for progress on the Kurdish Question
As the largest stateless ethnic group in the world, the Kurds deserve our support — that means opposing their persecution in Turkey and securing the release of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
BARELY a day goes by without the Morning Star running a story on the latest indignities and atrocities suffered by Kurdish people across the Middle East, particularly at the hands of the Turkish state and its authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently announced that Turkey was withdrawing from the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention for preventing and combatting violence against women.
The move drew rare condemnation from the EU and even a mild rebuke from US President Joe Biden but Erodgan was unmoved, claiming that the convention had been hijacked by people trying to “normalise homosexuality” and was incompatible with “family values.”
The decision prompted widespread protest in a country where over 300 women were murdered last year and where there is little legal protection for female victims of domestic violence.
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