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
Italy and the virus
From Piedmont, NICK WRIGHT assesses the (almost) post-Covid-19 political situation in a nation that has dealt with the pandemic so much more efficiently than Britain and the US
One of the baskets with food and other goods hanging from balconies and left at disposition of people in need during the coronavirus emergency in Milan, April 2020
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
DONALD TRUMP’S mercifully short and atypical experience of Covid-19 does rather demonstrate that when you have access to the most expensive healthcare system in the world, top-class doctors, whatever drugs they prescribe and urgent need to contest an election, that the only thing to do is blow dry your hair, tuck in your tummy and put a smile on your face.
He was a bit unsteady, with a slight glaze on his scrubbed visage, but the Commander-In-Chief — the one who didn’t actually go to war — put on a brave face. Displaying symptoms suggestive of “steroid euphoria” he appeared ready for a fight. Steroids plus an outsize ego and we have a jet-powered POTUS. For a while, possibly.
The train crash that is the US response to the pandemic is a good demonstration of the role that ideology plays in public policy. A private-insurance-based health system that excludes millions of people from healthcare and puts expensive medical treatment beyond the incomes of millions more inevitably leaves a big space for infections like Covid-19 to spread.
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