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
We have lost a great socialist in Alice Mahon
The former MP for Halifax was a credit to working-class politics and a committed fighter for peace. I shall miss her terribly, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP
Alice Mahon, a former MP for Halifax
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
TERRIBLE news came on Christmas Day that Alice Mahon had sadly passed away.
As the MP for Halifax, Mahon was utterly brilliant, determined, dogged and totally unfazed by the pomp and grandeur of Parliament.
Elected to Parliament in 1987, she was incredibly active on behalf of her constituents and proudly saw herself as a working-class MP.
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