The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
From May 4 your weekend paper will go up in price by 10p. Here's why
Editor BEN CHACKO explains that despite rising print sales our costs have still risen sharply ahead of income over the past couple of years
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
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VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
OCCASIONALLY an editor has to break bad news, and the bad news is that your weekend Morning Star will rise in price from next weekend by 10p, to £1.80, while the price of the online edition will rise for the first time since its launch seven years ago, by 10 per cent from May 6 (online subscribers will be written to directly before this happens).
We’re well aware that costs have risen steeply for readers through the inflationary crisis of the last couple of years, driven above all by corporate profiteering: and that slowing inflation doesn’t mean prices are falling.
But if we’re all feeling the hit, so is your paper — our own costs haven risen too, for paper, printing, distribution and wages.
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