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
A wealth tax is crucial in the transition to a fairer society
Not only is it morally right for wealth to be taxed at the same rate as income, but the government also has the potential to raise up to £174 billion a year by doing so, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
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
THE Covid-19 crisis is, of course, unprecedented in the scale of its economic and social disruption. Yet much of the unequal impact of the pandemic is because it is operating in a world in which half of global wealth belongs to the richest 1 per cent and in which global and regional inequalities are defined by racial, gender and class oppression.
Whilst billionaires increase their wealth and self-isolate on luxury yachts, workers in Leicester and across the world are forced to put themselves at risk in order to pay the bills.
We know that, as we rebuild from this crisis, we cannot sustain our fundamentally unequal social order. I believe that a wealth tax is crucial if we are to transition towards a fairer society.
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