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 this election means for teachers
The Tory threat of funding cuts and snap Ofsted inspections lasting a staggering three days will mean an exodus of teachers, warns 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
I’VE been a teacher for nearly a decade now and as such I’m in a privileged position — I have the best job in the world. It also means that I see every day the burning injustice in our society played out in our education system, riddled as it is with hierarchy and elitism.
On one hand we have a state system underfunded to such an extent that we have to teach in overcrowded classrooms in crumbling buildings while on the other side of the tracks private schools lavish the children of the wealthy with luxury facilities. Add onto this growing rates of child poverty and massive increases in inequality in society as a whole and state schools face a perfect storm.
That’s why I got involved in the Labour Party and why it was amazing to see that our campaign Labour Against Private Schools (#AbolishEton) had caused such a major shift in Labour policy.
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
The series unveils uncomfortable truths about youth alienation and online radicalisation — but the real crisis lies in austerity and the absence of class consciousness in addressing young people’s disillusionment, says teacher ROBERT POOLE