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
Shattering the tax and spend deficit myth
Modern monetary theory has been gaining momentum and popularity in recent years. CHRIS WILLIAMSON takes a look at the arguments
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
WE NEED a radical rethink on the tax and spend deficit myth.
Economic commentators and politicians of every stripe perpetuate the delusion that public spending is paid for by governments taxing or borrowing and that fiscal deficits are something to be concerned about.
We saw it again last week in the discussion around the mini-Budget.
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