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
Can Tory travails be turned to the left's advantage in our post-Brexit, post-Corbyn landscape?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson samples an Isle of Harris Gin as he visits a UK Food and Drinks market which has been set up in 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
LABOUR lost the last election in England.
The Brexit drama — Labour’s capitulation to the second referendum con-trick, and the party’s consequent alienation of much of its working-class electoral base, north and south, allowed Britain’s undemocratic election system to gift a purged and repurposed Tories a seemingly impregnable 80-seat majority.
Jeremy Corbyn’s near miss in 2017 saw the steepest and most substantial rise in Labour support and produced the second highest Labour vote ever. Two years later, a 2.4 per cent Tory majority in votes saw Labour lose a fifth of its seats. In both cases the decisive shift was in England while Labour’s position in Scotland was long gone and shows little sign of renewal despite the dent Corbyn made in the SNP position in 2017.
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