Israel’s genocide in Gaza persists, while the war in Ukraine continues with no negotiated settlement in sight. As Europe rearms and Britain expands its nuclear capabilities, CAROL TURNER reviews the alternatives
Why France's New Popular Front should be in government
Bill Greenshields and Mary Adossides speak to France Insoumise MP SYLVIE FERRER on Macron's anti-democratic antics and why the left needs a chance to implement its programme
STITCH-UP: Newly imposed French PM Michel Barnier
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
ROGER McKENZIE shines a light on conflicts in Sudan and Nigeria, where Western powers are intent on laying claim to valuable resources necessary for market dominance
The Morning Star publishes the Communist Party of Britain's 58th congress address by general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS, delivered on November 15 2025
In part III of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells the extraordinary story of the attempts by ‘moderates’ to prevent leftwinger Mark Serwotka from taking the leadership of the then-newly formed PCS union
JOHN ELLISON takes a look at Sir Keir Starmer’s track record of duplicity and betrayal since taking the Labour leadership role, as highlighted in a new book, The Fraud, by Paul Holden
Sylvie Ferrer
ON Thursday September 5 Emmanuel Macron, having first gained the support of Marine Le Pen, appointed as prime minister Michel Barnier from the right-wing Republican Party (which came in fourth place in the elections and constitutes the smallest bloc in the Assembly).
For the New Popular Front Jean-Luc Melenchon said that the elections had been “stolen” and that France would see a “Macron-Le Pen” government imposed, and the Communists called for mass New Popular Front mobilisation against this anti-democratic coup.
Similar stories
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year
As heavy industry flees and public-sector strikes paralyse the nation, the French leader’s increasingly desperate attempts to rule without a majority reveal the deep crisis at the heart of European liberal democracy, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
