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 the CWU asks of Scottish Labour
An alternative economic model run by and for local communities has already gained a foothold in some areas of Scotland — now we need the Community Wealth Building project to spread, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
FIGHT FOR THE ALTERNATIVE: CWU members outside the Scottish Parliament building, December 15, 2022
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 rising cost of living and the wages and earnings crisis is pushing more and more people into financial uncertainty, with many households facing the very real prospect of having to choose between eating or heating. Some won’t even have that choice as they face absolute poverty.
This unacceptable state of affairs is increasingly on display for all to see in an economy owned and run by corporate interests, as wealth created by workers flows to the already wealthy or is extracted by external investors.
Like so many workers across Britain, our members in the CWU are having to take industrial action over falling pay and attacks on their terms and conditions. Our members are currently in the fight of their lives to ensure our 500-year-old postal service isn’t chopped up, sold off and turned into a gig-economy shell of the industry we have all cherished and relied on.
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