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
Who do you trust? Teachers and doctors? Or the Tory government?
Unions are right to say that sending kids back to school too early endangers the children, the teachers and the rest of society, says ROBERT POOLE
Primary schoolchildren in class. The government has failed to reassure teachers it is capable of reopening schools safely
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
TEACHERS say it’s too soon to open schools. Parents say it’s too soon to open schools and now doctors say it’s too soon to open schools.
The Tories and the right-wing press say it’s time to open schools. Who do you trust?
At the crux of the matter is trust. After years of brutal austerity, we simply don’t trust the motives of the Tory government.
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