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
The Coronation: a profit and loss balance sheet
KEITH FLETT wonders, if the royal circus didn’t swell the public coffers with a wedge of fat tourist bucks as hoped, did it at least send our spirits soaring in a surge of national pride? Also no.
The Windsors in their new hats
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
IT HAS been reported that the coronation, which it might be remembered, has no formal purpose, cost £250 million.
Although King Charles is thought to have a personal wealth of £1.8 billion he did not contribute. Rather, with the cost-of-living crisis in mind surely, it was public money that was spent.
In return, there was a ceremony of largely made-up or reinvented traditions which at times looked more like a Monty Python sketch.
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