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
A proper lockdown requires full financial support for workers
The government needs to ensure workers can afford to stay at home, argues RICHARD BURGON MP
Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak
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 government’s complete failure to get the virus under control means we’re back in a lockdown.
This is clearly a necessary public-health measure given tens of thousands more unnecessary deaths would have happened if the virus had run even further out of control.
The lockdown must be done properly if it’s to succeed. But it's clear already that this lockdown is inadequate for driving the new strain of the virus right down to safe levels.
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