While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
“From Preston Bolton Oldham and by Colne I’ve tramped the roads and never been alone” — Alan Bell
Last week Labour lost a by-election in Radcliffe, a small town in Greater Manchester. Long considered a solid seat, and delivering two-thirds of its votes for Labour just a couple of years ago, this would be a disappointment at any time.
Yet this was not just one of those council-level flukes that we see on occasion.
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
JONATHAN TAYLOR attempts to disentangle the mind, self and political opinions of a successful bourgeois novelist


