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
Operation Moonshot: aiming for the stars and missing
ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL explain how ideology forces the government to dream big for Covid-19 while getting the basics wrong
Boris Johnson prefers to spend money in large sums on eye-catching projects, whether there is any evidence they are a good idea or not. This is the only way to make sense of projects like Operation Moonshot, reportedly costing a headline-worthy £100bn
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
COVID-19 has made the social determinants of health painfully obvious. Social geographers like Danny Dorling have pointed out that the map of the three-tier system of Covid-19-related restrictions looks uncannily like “a depiction of the north-south divide.”
The north is, on average, poorer than the south. People are more likely to have jobs where they cannot work from home, and to live near to their extended family who provide childcare. These, along with other factors, mean that Covid-19 can spread more easily.
Currently, the government recommends that those with Covid-19 symptoms should self-isolate for ten days. A minority of people are following this. One study, not yet peer-reviewed, found that fewer than one in five people reported that they had adhered to the full self-isolation period, despite around 70 per cent having the intention to.
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