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
Escaping poverty and inequality is an ‘aspiration’ that can unite us
Earlier this week John McDonnell chatted with feminist academic Selina Todd via Zoom about her new book on social mobility, and its themes of class, education and the struggle for a more egalitarian world. LYNNE WALSH reports
Feminist academic Selina Todd (left) and Labour's John McDonnell
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 concept of social mobility might well have achieved legendary status in some parts of society, but an Oxford professor is quietly smashing the myth to smithereens.
OK, it’s not quite a Wonder Woman scenario. The devotion to this idea has been doubted for a long time.
The thrill which greeted a new infrastructure including government commissions, a foundation and innumerable private-sector projects has abated quite a bit.
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