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
From Engels to Boris Johnson: the return of ‘social murder’
The PM’s inaction over Covid has parallels with politicians of mid-19th-century England, writes KEITH FLETT
Engels (right) with Marx, statue in Berlin
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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
FRIEDRICH ENGELS’s book, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, is a well-known classic of social history.
His investigations helped to inform the important understandings of Karl Marx and himself about how capitalism does and does not work.
One concept that he mentions in the book has recently begun to receive attention again.
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