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
Long Bailey is the best candidate to bring socialism into education
Neoliberalism and austerity have wreaked havoc on our schools system – and Labour needs a leader who can bring about radical change, writes ROBERT POOLE
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
REBECCA LONG BAILEY, candidate for leader of the Labour Party, released this week her “socialist vision for schools” and there is a lot of inspiring stuff in there, giving me hope that the next manifesto will be one with education at its core.
My only criticism is that this vision does not go far enough. A true socialist vision for education needs to be even more radical, not just echoing but also building on our 2019 manifesto.
Let’s have a vision that sees an end to the cruel testing of primary-age pupils — a system which puts young children under high levels of stress leaving them in tears.
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