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
Too many teachers are seeing their pupils suffer with poor mental health
Children’s lives are being blighted by austerity and poverty in towns and cities up and down the country, writes KEVIN COURTNEY
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’S like a slow-motion car crash that I am powerless to stop and can’t bear to watch or be part of any more.”
This was a heartbreaking response from one of our members responding to a survey on the surge of mental health problems among young people.
The results of a questionnaire, conducted before our annual conference in Liverpool this week, make harrowing reading.
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