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
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You were never my Chief Rabbi, bruv
DAVID ROSENBERG takes issue with Jonathan Sacks’s attack on Jeremy Corbyn and the former’s position on human rights
Former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks
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
THERE is a queue of people waiting patiently in line: long-forgotten Labour and Conservative figures, one-time respected journalists who have gone sour, barely repentant former racists and warmongers.
On Tuesday, former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks reached the front. It was his turn to put the boot in to Jeremy Corbyn, as the crude attempt to weaken and isolate Labour’s leader continues, and Theresa May is surely pondering a snap election.
In a New Statesman interview — well, platform, really: interviewers are supposed to probe and challenge — Rabbi Sacks thundered: “The recently disclosed remarks by Corbyn are the most offensive statement made by a senior British politician since Enoch Powell’s 1968 Rivers of Blood speech.”
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