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
Measles vaccination programmes need a shot in the arm
The increased risk of a measles outbreak in London highlights the need for more access to vaccination — not just in this country but worldwide, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
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
IN the 19th century, London used to be a haven for measles, with millions catching the disease. Karl Marx and his family were among them: in May 1854 they all got measles, the three Marx children aged between six and nine probably having picked it up at school.
Today, rates of measles in London are vanishingly low compared to the 1850s. However, last week on July 14 a report from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) stated that London is at risk of a large measles outbreak in the near future.
Models predict that measles could spread in a London outbreak of 40-160,000 people, potentially causing dozens of deaths and the hospitalisation of thousands.
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