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
Education: Freedom or conformity?
While the right fights culture wars in our schools, teacher ROBERT POOLE asks would their time and money not be better spent on helping our young people?
A police officer outside Pimlico Academy School, west London, where students have staged a walkout in protest over a school uniform policy that they claim is discriminatory and racist
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
AS LOCKDOWN starts to ease up — for everywhere other than my home town of Bolton that is — the Tories have decided that there is one group of people who need locking up. Children.
The Department for Education is spending £10 million on new “behaviour hubs,” having a crackdown on mobile phones and threatening to keep kids in school from 8am till 6pm.
It is unsurprising that this creeping authoritarianism comes from an education secretary who keeps a whip on his desk.
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