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
Coventry – city of culture, city of peace
NICK MATTHEWS pays tribute to a fascinating city that’s not always its own best advocate
The Coventry circular market contains a mural from the 1950s by specially commissioned art students from Dresden
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
COVENTRY is a fascinating city. Like a lot of places in the Midlands you wouldn’t know this from the people who live there or often from the people who are at least nominally its custodians.
The locals are not always great ambassadors or appreciative of the good things their city has. Sometimes it takes outsiders to see it. There is a sort of contempt born of familiarity.
One outsider is Adrian Jones, who for me has inherited the mantle of architectural critic Ian Nairn — he has written some great stuff in his book Towns in Britain (with Chris Matthews, Five Leaves Press, 2014), and blogs as “Jones the Planner.”
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