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
Breaking the old boys’ network
When you look at their backgrounds, is it any surprise that Johnson and Cummings hold the lives of the working class in such little value, asks ROBERT POOLE
Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings
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
WAS THERE ever a better time than now to abolish Eton and its ilk?
Yet again, we’re seeing another private school alumnus breaking the rules and having his back covered by someone from the old boys’ network.
Old boy of the 600-year-old Durham School Dominic Cummings, and senior adviser to Old Etonian Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, appeared on TV this week to explain why he broke lockdown.
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The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
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