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
Is Palestine the end of the road for the Labour Party?
The awful events in the Middle East have shown Starmer and his acolytes in their true colours – and it is not a pretty sight, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on stage speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, October 11, 2023
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
WHILE it may be too early to ascertain how much damage has been done to the Labour Party, Keir Starmer’s obsequiousness to Israel’s apartheid state has undoubtedly cost it a great deal of goodwill, particularly among those Muslim communities that would normally be inclined to offer it unqualified support.
Already we are witnessing a steady stream of councillors resigning the Labour whip in protest against Starmer’s refusal to condemn atrocities committed by the occupiers of Palestine and because of the appalling comments made by the likes of Emily Thornberry and David Lammy as they toured the TV studios in order to give unqualified backing to the genocidal Netanyahu regime and Israel’s “right to defend itself.”
There is, of course, nothing new in the Parliamentary Labour Party’s connivance with the global forces of reaction, be they in or out of government.
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