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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
How this year’s silly season turned nasty
Much of the news this summer wasn’t so much silly as it was downright unpleasant and sinister, writes CHRIS WILLIAMSON
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
Without a Labour leadership contest to occupy the minds of the chattering classes, July and August returned to the traditional “silly season.”
That was only to be expected, but this year’s was one of the silliest I can remember and on occasions it wasn’t simply silly, it was downright unpleasant and sinister, too.
What surprised me was that I was the target for much of this twaddle. The old “reds under the bed” guff was dusted off for another outing, malicious accusations of sexism and anti-semitism were thrown around like confetti, while some MPs behaved like medieval feudal barons.
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