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
End the destructive demonisation of migrants and asylum-seekers
As socialists and anti-racists, we cannot let this government off the hook as it seeks to scapegoat the vulnerable to distract from its own failures, says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Activists from Stand Up to Racism hold a demonstration to demand the end of hotel detention of refugees in Glasgow last month
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
IN 2015, the harrowing picture of three-year-old Syrian Alan Kurdi lying dead, face down on a beach, reverberated around the world.
The picture precipitated a surge in donations to charitable organisations and global leaders expressed their concern.
Then prime minister David Cameron said that he felt “deeply moved” by the image yet did nothing to increase the number of asylum-seekers accepted by Britain.
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