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
Together we can end the exploitation in Leicester’s garment industry
CLAUDIA WEBBE reports on a groundbreaking new initiative that is stepping in to defend workers where the government and big business have failed
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
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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
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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 unprecedented economic impact of the coronavirus, including the disgraceful increase in “fire-and-rehire” tactics, has laid bare the weakness of Britain’s labour protections.
Nowhere has this been more apparent than in my home city of Leicester, where a resurgence of much-needed attention has highlighted the continued severe exploitation in sections of our garment industry.
Despite endemic exploitation being widely studied for over a decade, painfully little action has been taken to protect garment workers in Leicester and around the world.
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