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 TUC should not support the British government's war policy in Ukraine
Stop the War Coalition's CHRIS NINEHAM explains why a resolution before Congress this year risks committing the labour movement to a policy of escalating the war in Europe
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
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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
THE trade union movement in Britain has an excellent recent record of opposing Britain’s involvement in foreign wars. Ever since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, through the dreadful attack on Iraq and the bombing of Syria and Libya, unions have played an important role not just in opposing successive British governments’ warmongering but in mobilising against it.
Last year a GMB resolution calling for increased arms spending narrowly passed at the TUC after an intense debate, undermining that record. It called on Congress to back an increase in arms spending to 3 per cent of GDP at a time when wages were in free fall and welfare was being slashed. It actually put the TUC to the right of the Tory government which even now only dares to push for 2.5 per cent arms spending.
This year a composite resolution on Ukraine threatens to overturn the trade unions’ anti-war record. The resolution follows logically from last year’s call for increased arms spending by effectively asking the movement to back Tory war policy against Russia.
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