Skip to main content
Ben Chacko
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives for the cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2025
Germany / 14 November 2025
14 November 2025

Sevim Dagdelen tells the Morning Star Germany is being readied to fight Russia in the interests of the United States

RMT in Whitehall
Workers' Rights / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
Ofer Cassif
Features / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’

Peter Frost
Obituary / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025

Ben Chacko pays tribute to the author of our much-missed Frosty’s Ramblings column, a champion of the countryside and working-class culture 

Erhai lake
Climate Crisis / 9 October 2025
9 October 2025

One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results

Telling ‘Silk Road stories’ for a multipolar world
Features / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Protesters marching in Epping, Essex after a temporary injunction that would have blocked asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel, was overturned at the Court of Appeal, August 31, 2025
Anti-Racism / 13 September 2025
13 September 2025

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers