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
University students are unsupported during coronavirus
MOLLIE BROWN writes that many student have been left in limbo, often unable to graduate, work or return home — with mature and working-class students disproportionately affected
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
COVID-19 has evidently had a very detrimental impact on many people across different sectors and groups society. If you are employed, self-employed, unemployed or a small-business owner, or work in a key industry such as the NHS, public services, public transport or education we have all — in some way or another — had to make drastic changes to our everyday lives.
Many have been offered state-funded financial support to help them through this crisis, but we also know that many have slipped through the net completely.
Students are another group that have been failed during the crisis, with little attention given to how the pandemic is impacting them.
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