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
Reflections on a lost world of socialism
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to former Moscow correspondent KATE CLARK about her book Twilight of the Soviet Union and what the faults and achievements of the first socialist state can teach us today
Kate Clark was Morning Star Moscow correspondent in the 1980s
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
DESPITE the best efforts of politicians to patch together a broken Thatcherite consensus, the days of capitalist triumphalism are gone.
Polls show big majorities for a return to public ownership of large sectors of the economy and the soaring inflation of the last two years has brought back demands for price controls.
The “unipolar moment” of US world supremacy ushered in by the collapse of the Soviet Union is past too, with China’s rise met with a new cold war against another Communist Party-led counterpart.
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