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
Linked-up thinking?
The announcement of a new power line reveals a lot about the government’s energy policy, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
PLANNING NEEDED: The sun sets behind Burbo Bank wind far, and Another Place, an art installation by Anthony Gormley, at Crosby Beach in Merseyside in north-west England
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
ON MONDAY, the government announced that it will build a new power line to connect Britain to the Netherlands.
The gigantic network of electricity cables, dubbed the LionLink, will link wind farms in the North Sea to both countries, allowing 1.8GW of electricity to be moved between them at any one time.
Putting wind farms in the North Sea is an attractive prospect: it is windy, the sea is shallow and, unlike onshore wind farms, there are no residents who may object to them.
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