While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE

Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services 

The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island

The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture

Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN

Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School

Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right —  and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY

Born into immense privilege yet committed to world revolution, Ivor Montagu was a pioneer of British cinema, a founding father of table tennis, a Communist loyalist and alleged Soviet spy. MAT COWARD tells the story of his extraordinary life

With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM

MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change

It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR

Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER