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 state of the States
The chasm between US Establishment politics and the daily struggles of working-class Americans continues to grow – but tactical errors by the left have led to worrying outcomes in recent elections, writes GLYN ROBBINS
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
WATCHING CNN recently summed up the true state of US society. On the main screen, chatter about the continuing wrangling in DC, the vacuous Cop26 summit and Donald Trump’s idiocy.
Running on a ticker tape along the bottom, updates on the latest industrial dispute in what’s been termed “Striketober” and seems likely to become “Strikevember”!
The chasm between Establishment politics — reflected in the mass media — and the daily struggles of working-class Americans continues to grow.
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