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
Lammy postures, but Haringey remembers the real Corbyn
The current MP for Tottenham might want to ‘distance’ himself from Corbyn’s socialist politics now, but his constituents haven’t forgotten the day the young councillor took the fight to the National Front in 1977, writes KEITH FLETT
Corbyn played a key role in the “Battle of Wood Green” on April 23 1977, one of the landmark battles which grappled with the rise of the fascist National Front, eventually successfully. On that Saturday afternoon the fascists planned to march down a bustling multi-racial shopping street with the aim of stirring up division and hate.
Corbyn was the organiser of the counter-demonstration.
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
JEREMY CORBYN’S Haringey years have led to lasting respect in the area.
I last saw Corbyn in person just before the first lockdown in early March 2020 when he delivered the 20th anniversary Bernie Grant lecture at the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham.
His speech that day ranged across issues from anti-racism, the history of slavery and the rise of Black Sections in the Labour Party.
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