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
If the government is serious about levelling up, then a good start would be investment in our schools
Exhausted educator ROBERT POOLE asks, does this government value education?
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 National Education Union (NEU) has launched a new campaign — Value Education, Value Educators.
Starting by focusing on workload caused by Ofsted and accountability, it is timely as the recent government Spending Review has made it clear that education is not something it values.
While we live in a time of rising bills and stagnant wages, the government has, in real terms, kept core spending per pupil at the same level as it was 15 years ago in the wake of the global financial crisis.
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