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
Demonstrations are not enough
Big protests can inspire us with a show of strength, but it’s the day-to-day organising in our workplaces and our communities that will make the difference, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
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
THE success of today’s People’s Assembly events in Manchester and the Cable Street anti-fascist demonstration in east London shouldn’t be measured only by the numbers, the tens of thousands, taking part.
The demonstrations’ significance will be far greater in inspiring sustained day-in, day-out struggle across Britain’s communities and trade unions — not just for the day of the demo.
This is now the task facing all who are serious about defeating this government.
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