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
Draconian legislation is being imposed that tramples on our rights
If the right to protest is conditional — to be withdrawn if a police officer believes someone is annoyed — then it is not a right as such, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
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
PROTEST matters. Protest works. That is the key lesson to draw from the events of the last week.
The unnecessary force used to break up a vigil for Sarah Everard was followed by the rushed vote to pass a Bill making that type of policing the norm.
However, widespread public revulsion, continued protests outside Parliament and an opposition opposing, doing its job, have forced a rethink, despite the Bill passing by a large majority. We now hear it is “delayed” and may not return until after Easter.
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