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
Abolish the Lords, share power between our nations
Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN’s contribution to the This is What Democracy Looks Like conference on August 31
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
I READ a sentence in an article in the Morning Star that helped explain why our constitution is in such a mess.
Nathan Akehurst, writing about the current constitutional wrangle, said: “There is a creaking old system to which democracy is a recent add-on.”
Britain did not have a “constitutional moment” when circumstances obliged it to codify the rules under which it would operate.
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