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
Freeports are a neoliberal nightmare
The proposals to build deregulated free-trade zones – where workers’ rights and the taxman are kept out – are completely unacceptable, writes Plaid Cymru economy spokesperson LUKE FLETCHER MS
A view of the construction site of Teeside Freeport
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
IN the 1980s, it was Coal not Dole — today it’s Enough is Enough. The story of managed decline experienced by working-class communities in Wales hardly needs retelling.
Since Thatcherism wove this fabric of decline into our communities, the term regeneration has cast a very large shadow over Welsh life.
It has by now become part of everyday speech among policy-makers, local councillors, trade unions and social activists, filling pages in newspapers and mouths in conversations.
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