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 SNP – all talk and no do
Proclamations of Scotland being the first country to adopt community wealth-building are extremely premature. CRAIG ANDERSON of CWU Scotland explains
Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to Loanhead, Midlothian, while on the local election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday May 4, 2022.
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
IT SEEMS for everyone outside of Scotland, the country still appears to be some form of progressive utopia that is putting England’s political leaders to shame. For all of us living in Scotland, we wish the utopia were true.
A blog posted by Novara Media, proclaiming Scotland to have better public services and lower council tax, was rightly met with amusement across the Scottish left.
It came only a week after the Scottish government published its Spending Review which set out plans to cut anywhere between 17,000 and 40,000 public-sector jobs over the next three years, with local councils again set to bear the brunt of the cuts.
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