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
Starmer: a Conservative leader of the Labour Party
How can a Labour Party whose leader's politics and character are indistinguishable from the Tories hope to be recognised as an alternative by Britain's struggling masses, asks BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
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
AFTER Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation, on April 4 2020 Sir Keir Starmer defeated Rebecca Long Bailey and Lisa Nandy in the Labour leadership election with more than 56 per cent of the vote.
Since then, he has been leading with a promise to unite the different ideological factions of the party.
There is an unfathomable political gap between this promise and his practice. He is pushing Labour in a direction where it is difficult to distinguish it from the Conservative Party.
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