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
The fight is on for a People’s Brexit
At the first meeting of the Communist Party’s newly elected executive committee last weekend, ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report. The Morning Star publishes here an edited version of it
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
BRITAIN’S political crisis is deepening by the day. The traditional party of the capitalist class, the Tory Party, is divided and possibly heading towards a rupture. No longer can it be said that “loyalty is the Tories’ secret weapon.”
The roots of the present crisis lie in the great financial crash of 2007-8. The neoliberal offensive unleashed after the counter-revolution in the Soviet Union and the socialist states of eastern Europe collapsed under the weight of its own contradictions.
The over-accumulation of capital — much of it fictitious — and the short-term greed of largely unregulated financial market forces brought neoliberalism to its knees.
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