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
Coronavirus is highlighting extreme racial and class inequalities – let’s vow to end them
The uneven deaths reflect a global economic system which has been built upon racialised extraction and subordination, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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
THE Covid-19 crisis is, of course, unprecedented. Yet it is also shining a brutal light on existing racial and class inequalities, which have deepened after half a century of brutal, unrestrained neoliberal policies.
As a black woman representing the exceptionally diverse constituency of Leicester East, it has been extremely concerning to see the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus upon African, Asian and minority ethnic communities.
Analysis from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre found that, of over 4,000 critically ill coronavirus patients, 34 per cent were from BAME backgrounds — over double what would be expected based on population demographics.
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