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
Covid-19 and the rise of the conspiracy movement
Years of government lies and misinformation combined with profit-driven internet algorithms and a growing public alienation from ‘official’ politics have fuelled a rise in conspiracy theories, writes JOE GILL
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
THOUSANDS gathered in Trafalgar Square in August to listen to conspiracy guru David Icke and fellow Covid-19 denier Piers Corbyn rail against the “plandemic.”
They returned en masse last month, as did the far-right groups who are infiltrating these events.
Such large gatherings amid a global pandemic can no longer be dismissed as the rantings of just a few cranks.
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That should be warning enough to end the company’s contract with the NHS, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER