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
Countering the ‘Sewage report’
We must reject revisionist academic Tony Sewell's pro-establishment whitewash by continuing to present the facts about institutional racism in Britain, writes MARC WADSWORTH
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
TONY SEWELL used to have a reactionary, barely literate weekly column in the Voice, Britain’s black newspaper, which was birthed by the iconic Brixton uprising of the youth against police oppression 40 years ago. The uprising came three months after the New Cross Fire that claimed 14 young black lives and the unprecedented Black People’s Day of Action.
Sewell’s views chime with conservative elements in the black community. That’s why the equally backward Trevor Phillips also used to have a column in the paper, before I was brought in to edit and revamp it.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to have at first tried to get Phillips then settled on Sewell to chair his discredited racial disparities in the UK commission, the government’s response to the justice demands of the magnificent Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
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