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
Gravity, the weakest force in the universe
The only reason we initially noticed gravity is thanks to the size of huge and easily observable objects like the planets — but all material possesses this force and scientists are determined to measure it, even at the atomic level. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL report
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
THE world is in free-fall. This seems obvious enough in a world in which billionaires have collectively got richer by $3.9 trillion during a pandemic, exceeding by $0.2 trn the global combined wage income lost by workers in the same time.
However, beyond the inability of governments to regulate capital, the Earth itself is falling towards the Sun, always “overshooting” but being pulled constantly down in a way that creates its orbit.
This is the effect of gravity, the force that keeps us stuck on Earth, the Earth spinning round the Sun, and the Sun moving through space as part of an enormous galaxy.
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