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
Privacy or freedom: the app that could open up the world again
Countries such as South Korea have used contact-tracing apps to help contain Covid-19. But will the British government be able to implement the approach without compromising the rights of citizens, ask 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
TRANSPORT Secretary Grant Shapps has revealed that the Isle of Wight is to be the initial testing ground for the new NHS Covid-19 contact tracing smartphone application.
The app developed by government department NHSX (responsible for co-ordinating digital developments within the NHS) will alert users if they have been in contact with a confirmed coronavirus case.
The government’s hope is that this will allow the country to emerge from full lockdown, relying on this app to maintain a sufficiently low level of transmission until a vaccine can be rolled out.
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