SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Class politics beyond Yes and No
The independence debate is sucking the material basis out of Scottish politics. We can’t just ‘get it out the way’ with a referendum – we need a third option on the ballot paper itself, argues PAULINE BRYAN of the Red Paper Collective
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
WHEN trying to understand the current situation in Scotland, it is important to recognise there is no strong left.
It’s easy to have a romantic view with Keir Hardie, Mary Barbour and the rent strikes, Jimmy Maxton and the Red Clydesiders, the Upper Clyde Shipworkers — but that isn’t the Scotland of today.
The Scottish Labour Party played its role in sapping the radicalism out of Scottish politics.
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