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
We need a new movement as much as a new voting system
There are strong arguments in favour of proportional representation, argues NICK WRIGHT, but any left-wing government relies on a committed set of MPs and a mass movement in support of change outside of Parliament above all else
The lessons of history are that Labour has a chance of forming a radically reforming government only when the working class and its allies are mobilised and united — and when the mass popular mood acts as a brake on the tendency of the right to side with the class enemy
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
THE letters page of the Morning Star features an interesting exchange between proponents of a proportional representation (PR) system for elections and those who favour continuing with Britain’s first-past-the-post (FPTP) system.
A politically respectable argument for FPTP is that it provides the best chance for a majority Labour government.
Its supporters argue that PR leads to coalition government with the progressive tendency always at the mercy of its least progressive component.
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