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
Why a vote to re-elect Mark Serwotka is a vote for militant left-wing trade unionism
TONY CONWAY gives the Communist line on the PCS general secretary election
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka
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
NOW that nominations for the PCS’s next general secretary election are open, Communists in PCS and in the wider trade union movement recognise the imperative of creating and building extra-parliamentary action if Britain is to both elect a left Labour government and to throw of years of New Labour, Lib Dem and Conservative Party austerity and anti working-class policies.
These policies have seen people die, forced students into massive debt and in some cases prostitution, ratcheted up racist language, actions and policies including forced deportations and seen cuts in our wages and other terms and conditions.
A left Labour government gives us an opportunity to stop and reverse these attacks. To win trade union rights, to enforce anti-discrimination laws and to reintroduce a proper social security system. But this won't happen automatically; we must work for it.
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