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
Fascism: capitalism's weapon against the working class
Western social democracy's timidity has emboldened the fascists. TONY CONWAY looks at the far right's resurgence in Britain
RACIST RAGE: Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth, Staffordshire - an asylum seekers residence - after a fascist mob attack on August 5, 2024 - note anti-immigrant graffiti
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
SINCE the general election Britain has seen an increase in racist incidents and anti migrant protests. Such happenings aren’t new of course as over recent years we have regularly witnessed violent protests outside and inside hotels across all our nations.
The flames for this violence have been fanned by the media and politicians who have sought to blame people escaping poverty, war and environmental damage rather than their own failings.
Capitalism and imperialism are the root cause of these failings. Likewise the collapse of social democracy as a system that attempts to ameliorate the worst aspects of mass exploitation continues.
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