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
Why don’t today’s Blair enthusiasts like talking about his actual policies?
Neo-Blairites get strangely embarrassed by New Labour’s PFI schemes, NHS privatisation and Atos welfare checks, observes SOLOMON HUGHES
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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
ACCORDING to right-wing pundits, the Labour leadership “is finally learning to love Tony Blair again.”
The promotion of centrist types like Wes Streeting to the shadow cabinet and Keir Starmer’s support for Blair getting knighted are the outward signs of a not-so-secret nouveau-Blairism flourishing at the top of Labour.
But these neo-Blairites don’t seem to take Blair on his own word. They rarely celebrate his actual policies, only his election wins.
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When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN
