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
Scourge of modern slavery in 21st-century Britain
The tragedy of the 39 people who died in the back of a lorry in Essex has brought the whole issue of modern slavery to the forefront, writes PAUL DONOVAN
Desperate migrants are often prey to modern-day
slave bosses
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
THE prevalence of slavery in 21st-century Britain is an often hidden problem but nonetheless continues to grow. The Met Police reported 263 cases of modern slavery in London last year. The Global Slavery Index estimate that there are more than 130,000 people living in modern slavery in Britain today.
A number of sectors seem to attract slave labour. They include car washes, nail bars, construction, agriculture and factories, domestic service, catering and the sex industry.
A number of the pitiful tales of how people have been trafficked to the UK, then effectively sold into slavery, have been exposed. Shayne Tyler, the compliance director at vegetable suppliers Fresca Group, is a passionate campaigner against modern slavery.
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