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
Sexism – ‘it’s suffocating and exhausting’
LYNNE WALSH gets the view from the ground about the relentless tide of misogyny affecting women, young or old – and asks when we’re going to get angry enough to do something about it
Protesters during a Million Women Rise march from Oxford Street to Trafalgar Square in London to demonstrate against male violence against women and girls. Picture date: Saturday March 4, 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
HOW many feminists does it take, to make a joke?
Only one: she is the joke.
Retired professor and editor Merrie Bergmann wrote that, nearly 40 years ago, in the academic journal Hypatia. Named after the Egyptian philosopher and mathematician of the 4th century AD, the publication focused on philosophy and women’s studies. It’s ironic that the former topic is still a vibrant area of study, while the latter is being consigned to the dustbin of history.
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