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
Music set adrift from the continent and our island
The arts in this country have value simply because they are ours: BENN LUNN calls for a recalibration of how we view the music industry
Freelance professional musicians, conducted by director David Hill, perform a section of 'Mars' from Holst's 'The Planets' in Parliament Square, Westminster, in October 2020
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 FEBRUARY 12, the Guardian published an illuminating and soul-destroying article by Joseph Middleton.
The director of Leeds Lieder festival highlights how the nature of the current Brexit agreement is implemented has created insane scenarios, including having to fork out £600 for a gig he had had in the diary for two years.
The article goes on to describe how a lot of the chaos has been hidden away because so many cancellations were a result of Covid-19, and not because performers lost out on work due to bureaucracy.
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