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 time for universal free broadband for all has come
The unions are right to flag up how during the pandemic the digital divide has left too many children with no access to schooling. We must stand with them, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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 STAND in full solidarity with and support all trade unions who were demanding that all schools and colleges move immediately to online learning.
We on the left must learn from the demonisation of education unions in recent weeks and indeed throughout this pandemic. At times, it has been reminiscent of the brutal right-wing campaign against the miners’ union in the 1980s.
Across the country, the NEU, NASUWT, Unison, Unite and many other teaching unions have consistently stood up for children and working families.
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