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
Funds for aircraft carriers, but no money for Universal Credit
This shameless government wasted billions on its shambolic, compromised Covid response and now wants to waste more on cold war nukes, not nurses, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Boris Johnson at Westport Care Home in Stepney Green, east London last week
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
IT IS clear just how recklessly reactionary this government really is. The liberal commentators who continue to insist that Boris Johnson is also a liberal are telling us much more about their politics than his.
Politics is always about choices and this government always chooses the option that is most damaging to ordinary people that it can get away with.
Future historians may wonder how they did manage to get away with it even for this long, and marvel at the lack of opposition they faced.
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