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
These strikes will define the future of Britain
The Tories are trying to wreck the country beyond repair before the next election through authoritarian legislation and driving down pay by gutting public-sector wages. That’s why the strike wave must win, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Liverpool as nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland take industrial action over pay
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
THE Tories are already fighting the next general election while remaking Britain into some sort of US Republican 1950s version of society.
The Tories have promoted the issue of refugees and migrants crossing the Channel, in a dog-whistle political campaign aiming to shore up their vote.
Other issues of racism have come to the fore, including the use of discriminatory stop and search (overwhelmingly done by the Metropolitan Police) as well as strip-searching mainly black children in our schools.
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