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
Boris and Jo Johnson: dim Bulbs
Rather than cracking down on outrageous prices from the Big Six, the Tories promoted phoney ‘competition’ companies that only traded energy rather than produced it – one even hired the PM’s brother as a director, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street, London.
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
WE are in the middle of an energy crisis which is throwing increasing numbers of people into “heat or eat” decisions. And right in the middle of that is a phoney market solution that fell apart. Because this is Britain, it is also marked by a Tory all-friends-together cronyism.
The government would like to blame the “energy crisis” on one external factor — Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
It is true that Putin’s bloody war has created a side effect of a big pressure on energy prices, alongside the main effects of killing, torture and injustice. But energy inequality is a problem that long predates Putin’s vicious war.
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