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 still need justice for Sheku Bayoh
Police Scotland has admitted institutional racism as an inquiry tries to uncover the truth over the death of the 31-year-old unarmed black man killed in 2015, and bring closure for his family, writes ROZ FOYER
Supporters of Sheku Bayoh outside Capital House, Edinburgh, to mark the next set of hearings for the public inquiry into his death. Bayoh died in May 2015 after he was restrained by officers responding to a call in Kirkcaldy, Fife, February 6, 2024
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
AS the media turn their attention to Westminster and follow every step and misstep by the political parties, one issue is already looming across parties and the coverage — institutional racism.
We have been forced by media outlets to watch Nigel Farage, an unelected “party leader,” target British Muslims as he tries to justify his abhorrent views.
The Conservatives are accused of having “a race problem” as they were slated for accepting campaign donations from a rich donor who was on record making vile, racist comments. This was followed closely by the Labour Party facing a backlash as it ditched several black and minority ethnic candidates. The issue of race discrimination is never far away.
Similar stories
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally
The murder of an anti-racist protester in 1979 by a special unit of the Met Police was followed by a gruelling battle to win answers about what happened on that tragic day. Now material related to that campaign is available to the public and researchers for the first time at the Bishopsgate Institute. INDIANNA PURCELL reports