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
A politicised mass movement is what needs to be built
TOM MORRISON looks at the challenges facing Scottish trade unionists as they gather for STUC Congress today
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard addresses the STUC annual congress in 2019
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
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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
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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 STUC acknowledges that it meets this year “in some of the most challenging times that trade unions have ever faced.”
Congress is an online one-day event with all the motions remitted and two general council reports debated.
A strategy is given for the next six months up to the 2021 Congress and the Scottish parliamentary elections.
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