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
The fight against this terrible government must go on
Despite the weak leadership, Labour conference saw steps towards a £15 minimum wage, a Green New Deal and global peace — on the other hand the Tories are overseeing climate change, poverty and Covid chaos. The left must keep fighting, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Protesters against the Conservatives in Manchester this weekend
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
I FIRST joined the Labour Party many years ago because I wanted to change the world for the better.
I am sure that the overwhelming majority of members could say the same, however recently they joined.
But I was quite surprised to discover that many of those people who joined in my era had given up any of their idealism, or enthusiasm, or even hope.
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