A Dutch investigation found seven internationally renowned Holocaust and genocide experts, including Israelis, concluded Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide, despite a campaign of denial and disinformation from the US state, writes TERRY HANSEN
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Out of touch Labour is low-hanging fruit for the left within it
The Labour Party is not immutable and remains the best vehicle for mass left politics, argues VINCE MILLS
APPLAUDING WHAT EXACTLY? Newly elected Labour MP for Selby and Ainsty, Keir Mather, with his leader Sir Keir Starmer and deputy leader Angela Rayner at Selby football club, North Yorkshire; (right) cartoon by JAB
The horrors in the Congo have much in common with Gaza’s genocide, most notably the financial and military support of the US, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MIKE COWLEY welcomes half a century of remarkable work, that begins before the Greens and invites a connection to — and not a division from — nature
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party
JONATHAN TAYLOR appreciates how, for a black British musician, to walk onstage can be a rebellious act
Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
THE discussion in the Morning Star and elsewhere on the left, on the approach socialists should take to the Labour Party seems to be growing more intense and while I understand and am sympathetic to the frustration and anger many socialists feel, I continue to believe that the left should dig in and challenge the current Labour Party leadership.
I completely agree that that leadership certainly needs challenging. I am working on the assumption that most readers of the Star are not avid readers of the website Conservative Home; however, in early September it published the latest polling findings and commentary by Lord Ashcroft.
This is how the article begins: “’Britain is broken — people are getting poorer, nothing seems to work properly, and we need big changes to the way the country works, whichever party is in government’.” In my latest polling, an extraordinary 72 per cent agreed with this statement, including more than half of 2019 Conservative voters. Only just over one in five took the alternative view…”
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