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
There is power in an education union
The announcement of a pay rise for teachers shows that the education unions have the Tories on the run. Now it’s time to push for radical change, says ROBERT POOLE
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
I READ once, probably on a mug in the staffroom, that teachers are solar-powered. They recharge during the summer. Though so far this summer doesn’t look like one where we can expect much sun.
As I write this, I’m looking out the window at grey skies and putting aside any plans of travelling abroad for any sunshine.
There has been some good news for the profession, though. Fears of the government trying to impose a “summer of catch-up” on teachers thankfully hasn’t materialised and it seems that the government may even be trying to win teachers back on side with a pay rise.
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