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 left needs to take a lead in forging ideas around constitutional change
If we don’t decide what kind of future UK we want, the decision will be made for us, warns Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN
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
DESPITE 21 years of devolution, the Tory government’s handling of Brexit and Covid-19 has confirmed that the UK is one of the most centralised states in the world.
But now it seems everyone is in favour of constitutional change — Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and, of course, nationalists.
We should remember that constitutions are not neutral — they are devised to deliver for those in power, and in our society that means supporters of global capitalism.
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