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Cost of war / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
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Anti-racist demonstration / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
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Earthquake / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
Friedrich Merz
Economy / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ

Picturesque: Morning Star sports writer Layth’s view of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Layth’s diaries / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026

From Beat poets and music festivals to anti-Ice campaigners and new Arsenal ink, LAYTH YOUSIF continues his exploration of a city where community still matters

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Middle East war / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
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Earthquake / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
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Gaza genocide / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
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Argentina / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
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South Africa / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
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Ian Lavery
Features / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again

Friedrich Merz
Economy / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ

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Liberation AGM / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026

World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM

Kiera Marshall
Poverty / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026

KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it

The banner takes its place on the Edinburgh Pride parade. Pic: Andrew Johnstone
Features / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer

Mustafa Barghouti (fist raised) at the International Conference Against War Pic: Steve Eason
Features / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine

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Women’s tennis / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
Steve clarke
Men’s football / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026
Picturesque: Morning Star sports writer Layth’s view of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Layth’s diaries / 28 June 2026
28 June 2026

From Beat poets and music festivals to anti-Ice campaigners and new Arsenal ink, LAYTH YOUSIF continues his exploration of a city where community still matters

Frida 2
Exhibition Review / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE

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Exhibition Review / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL

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Music Review / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear

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Theatre Review / 26 June 2026
26 June 2026

GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy

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Books / 25 June 2026
25 June 2026

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul

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Books / 25 June 2026
25 June 2026

GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis