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
Building a revolutionary outfit: security and socialist aesthetics
As an indication of the state of the class struggle, the contest for the streets is still central to progressive politics, says NICK WRIGHT — and how leftists take to the streets matters too
For the working-class movement, the street is our stage. When the dominant media is monopoly owned, the few spaces where the working class can find its voice and make it heard are precious.
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
MUCH of politics is performance. The exuberant picket lines of this past year, the mass character of the strike movement and the enormous public support strikers and their families enjoy have breached the cloak of silence that renders the working-class movement invisible.
Mass mobilisation has transformed our routine activity into headline news.
The witty wordplay and irreverent humour of nurses and medics have transformed weary picket lines into living tableaus, while many union leaders now strive to emulate Mick Lynch’s deadpan delivery.
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