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New Prime Minister Andy Burnham makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, London, after meeting King Charles III and accepting his invitation to become Prime Minister and form a new government, July 20, 2026
Downing Street / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026
Red Cross volunteers carry an injured woman into an ambulance after a Russian strike in the Lukianivka neighbourhood of Kyiv, Ukraine, May 24, 2026
Editorial / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026
Student protest in the 1970s
Labour / 19 July 2026
19 July 2026

Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO 

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Music / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026

New releases from Old Spot, Chris Marksberry, and Clementine Lovell

Kevin Keegan in 1979
Kevin Keegan / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026
Police hit supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party as they attempt to march toward India's Parliament, demanding the resignation of the education minister, in New Delhi, India, July 20, 2026
South Asia / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026
A health worker prepares a patient's blood sample for testing at Bunia General Hospital in Bunia, Congo, June 11, 2026
Central Africa / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026
Residents look at their ruined home following a Russian air guided bomb strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, July 19, 2026
Round-up / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026
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Ann Widdecombe Murder / 19 July 2026
19 July 2026

In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs

Student protest in the 1970s
Labour / 19 July 2026
19 July 2026

Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO 

Planet earth by Kevin M Gill/CC
Full Marx / 18 July 2026
18 July 2026

Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School

bumblebees
Heatwave / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains

Matt Kerr and Mike Jackson
Features / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism

Strait of Hormuz
Features / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP

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Opinon / 20 July 2026
20 July 2026

STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error

MORE TRIUMPH THAN TRASH: Garbage play the Royal Albert Hall October 2022 / Pic: Raph_PH/CC
Live / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock

Synthetic Sincerity
Cinema / 16 July 2026
16 July 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity,  Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London

Cartoon: McGookin
Clacton / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum

psycho
Books / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself

ancient
Books / 17 July 2026
17 July 2026

JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency