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
Human rights and trade deals
The Westminster government needs to be pressed constantly to be transparent on discussions it is having around post-Brexit trade deals, argues ARTHUR WEST
MURKY BUSINESS: Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and former trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan
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
DURING Britain’s time as an EU member the British government was a party to 40 trade deals which covered 70 countries.
In this post-Brexit period Britain is focused on trying to secure trade deals that replace arrangements made when it was a member of the EU.
One of the concerns of organisations such as Amnesty International is that the current Tory Westminster government would be prepared to overlook human rights issues and labour abuse concerns to secure trade deals.
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