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
Enemy of the People
KEITH FLETT looks at a Labour turncoat behind the ratcheting up of measures to courtail the right to protest
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: (L to R) Lord Walney; Just Stop Oil protesters outside New Scotland Yard in London on December 2 2023
[Walney pic: Public domain]
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
JOHN WOODCOCK was a failure as a right-wing Labour MP between 2010-2019, having come from a New Labour pedigree.
In his final period as an MP he sat as an independent after allegations about his behaviour, never resolved, were made.
After losing his seat he was made a peer by Boris Johnson and his journey to the political right has continued since.
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