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
Striking to halt the Tory Great Train Robbery
RMT members taking industrial action to defend rail jobs and services against rampant profiteering by private monopolies are standing up for us all, writes RMT president, ALEX GORDON
DEFENDING SERVICES: RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on a picket line outside Euston station in London last month
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
AMERICAN writer Mark Twain satirised 19th-century oligarchs JP Morgan and John D Rockefeller as “robber barons” of the new “Gilded Age.”
Tory Britain in 2022 feels increasingly like a Mark Twain novel. Just not as funny.
Today, private utility giants levy tolls on customers safe in the knowledge that generous donations to their sponsored politicians will see off any short-term temptation to tax their windfall profits.
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But unions warn renationalisation must not be fudged
After yet more disgraceful price hikes enacted purely to line the pockets of private shareholders, RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY demands that Labour finally does the right thing for rail workers and passengers