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
The parliamentary socialist project in Europe: is the party over?
The plodding logic of piecemeal progressive change that social democracy – with support from mass communist parties – provided has almost died on this continent; what can we learn by analysing its demise, asks NICK WRIGHT
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
DOES the left have a future? Or more precisely, do the social forces exist that would leave capitalism with no future?
As the wheels come off the post-2008 bid to stabilise our crisis-ridden system the question is raised: what kind of future for the main capitalist states is possible?
How can the global elite and each national bourgeoisie stabilise the capitalist economy without measures which are already rousing working-class resistance?
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