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 must restore and expand the NHS
If we want to save our 75-year-old state-run healthcare system, remembering and recognition are the answer and not ‘reform’ or worker exploitation, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
People gather on Warren Street in London, ahead of a Support the Strikes march in solidarity with nurses, junior doctors and other NHS staff, March 2023
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 we mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the NHS this week, at such a distance in time from its founding it’s easy to skim over the scale of the challenges that the Labour government had to overcome to achieve it — and if we were to believe the majority of political and media narrators, the challenges it now faces require more or less all of its founding principles to be undone to “save” it.
We have been told for more than a decade now by successive Conservative governments that the investment required to maintain the NHS would be “unsustainable” — without the endless series of Tory “reforms,” of course.
At the same time, we’re also told ad nauseam that the Tories are, in fact, putting “record” sums into the NHS — the politicians and talking heads always leave out that a penny over the last budget would be a “record” and yet the NHS budget has faced almost unbroken real-terms cuts disguised as “records.”
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