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
Leaving the EU and entering a new economic paradigm
Despite being a Remainer, CHRIS WILLIAMSON MP now believes what really matters is how we enact modern and visionary socialist policies outside of the EU
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 votes have now been cast in the European election and counting will begin on Sunday.
Whatever the outcome of this election, I believe we must respect the result of the 2016 referendum, even though the margin of victory was relatively narrow. That’s how democracy works.
I lost my parliamentary seat by just 41 votes in 2015, before winning it back with a majority of more than 2,000 in 2017. Being voted out by such a small margin, from a constituency in my home city where I grew up, was a bitter pill to swallow, but I had no choice.
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