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
Tory failures risk robbing young people of their future
We need to demand bold policies in education and employment if we are to avoid a lost generation, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
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
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock’s “Don’t kill your granny” message to young people is the latest example of the government’s cynical attempts to shift the blame for its disastrous handling of the coronavirus pandemic and the devastating death toll that’s arisen from that.
It’s particularly galling given the role government failure played in spreading the disease through care homes like wildfire when thousands of older people were discharged from hospitals into care homes without being tested.
This latest insult to young people comes hot on the heels of the government’s disgraceful exam results fiasco.
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