GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue

Chris Searle speaks to British pianist ZOE RAHMAN

by Mike Jenkins

Statement from the executive committee of the Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights

New PM slashes fuel bills and culls Starmer deadwood, but peace activists warn that placing John Healey as new Chancellor shows ‘beyond doubt that the military industrial complex is in charge of Burnham’s economic policy’

by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group

DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy

GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a pessimistic novel in which Hitler is removed from history, to little effect

A Cabinet clear-out and an apparent rejection of neoliberal orthodoxy have created fresh political momentum, but can entrenched institutional power be overcome by the new PM, wonders ANDREW MURRAY

The war crimes of US imperialism in its third military aggression against Iran and the necessity of confronting the devastating policy of ‘War, war until victory’!

NATHAN CRITCH hails a new law, which will go some way to prevent state cover-ups, as it passes through the Commons

With Jamie J

The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE

Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER

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

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

The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book

Russell ‘numb to disappointment’ after early exit at Spa-Francorchamps

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by David Nicholson, Wales reporter