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
Fighting Tory plans for a bonfire of workers’ rights
The Thatcherites in the Cabinet present a real threat to workers’ rights, which our whole labour movement must unite to fight, argues RICHARD BURGON 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
A FEW years ago a number of free-market extremists published a book claiming British workers “prefer a lie-in to hard work,” slandering them as “among the worst idlers in the world” who “work among the lowest hours.”
One of the authors of that book is now the foreign secretary. Another the home secretary. Another the trade secretary. Another author of that book is the new business secretary, who has established a new 30-strong panel of business leaders to discuss changes to workers’ rights including getting rid of break and holiday pay entitlements and ending the already limited maximum working hours protections of the Working Time Directive.
It says everything you need to know that this consultation is being done solely with business leaders.
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