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
The killing of George Floyd is part of a broader pattern of state violence
Police violence is bound up with the class system and the place black people occupy in our class system is in turn bound up with our history, says NICK WRIGHT
A mourner at George Floyd’s funeral service on Tuesday, a mural to the murdered man in Pittsburgh, Cynthia Jarrett (standing), who died during a police search of her north London home in 1985 and an upturned car in the aftermath of the Tottenham riots after her death
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
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Over 10,000 people have been arrested in the US during protests against police racism and violence.
When such events simultaneously occur across dozens of cities then any analysis which attributes the cause of such disorder to a conspiracy by “antifa” or any other imaginary category of subversives itself is fantasy.
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