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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 Domestic Abuse Bill fails women
Charities working with the victims of domestic abuse have criticised the government’s draft domestic abuse Bill this week, and say children will still be at risk, writes LYNNE WALSH
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
THE Domestic Abuse Bill has been a long time coming, with a consultation that started back in March last year. It has put a figure on the economic and social costs of domestic abuse to society — £66 billion for victims in 2016 to 2017.
Leading organisations say they want to know much more about resources for the work they do, including money to provide decent housing for survivors.
They point to some gaps in the 200-page document, claiming that the needs of children have not been adequately addressed.
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