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
Nobody wants to go ‘back to normal.’ Time for the left to step up
As we are asked to return to work, Britain has an understandable lack of trust in its government. But what alternatives are there — and which should the left fight for, asks KEVIN OVENDEN
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
IT’S anyone’s guess how many people who can work from home returned to offices this week under what has been a deluge of bullying from some Tory MPs and their friends in the media.
The government had not released figures by Friday morning, though it must have a rough idea from the real-time data generated by the mass transit systems in London and other cities.
Anecdotal evidence from unions representing transport and office workers suggests a trickle rather than a torrent.
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