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
New thinking needed - not nostalgia for the past
We must go to the warehouses and call centres where modern working class are today, not where yesterdays workers were, writes JOHN GREEN
The final shift leaves Kellingley Colliery on the last day of production at Britain’s only remaining deep coalmine
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
WITH the Labour Party leadership election now well underway, the soul-searching and breast-beating will no doubt continue unabated.
In an attempt to learn from recent events, a number of correspondents to the Star have called for the need for “a proper class analysis” of the situation, but none has attempted to define what they mean by this.
There have been many words written in castigating the loss of “Labour’s heartlands,” of the “working classes deserting Labour” but who has attempted to describe the changes that have taken place, not suddenly at the last election, but over decades under our very noses?
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