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
What better time than now to scrap outdated GCSEs for good?
The point of GCSEs is to force a fake market system onto schools, creating an educational straitjacket for teachers and pupils alike, says ROBERT POOLE
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 Covid-19 crisis has meant that this year, out of necessity, GCSE exams have been abandoned in favour of teacher assessment.
There has been a reluctant admission that teachers do in fact know the capability of their pupils and can be trusted to grade them.
Current Year 10 pupils will have missed months of their education so far with more disruption expected.
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