Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
‘Never again’ is a call to action
An act of defiance: MICHAEL ROSEN talks to Louise Raw about his new book, The Missing, anti-semitism, and the importance of countering Holocaust denial
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
“THIS is our history and it’s up to us to find it.”
Michael Rosen is talking about new book The Missing, a deft combination of prose and poetry which pieces together the previously lost stories of his two great-uncles Martin and Jeschie, victims of the Holocaust: he could equally be expressing his wider artistic mission.
Much of Rosen’s work has often served to memorialise the persecuted, the “othered” and the politically dissident within their own countries: from his and Emma Louise Williams’s exhibition of the work of anti-fascist London artist Albert Turpin, to his biography of Emile Zola.
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