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
Western bombs on Syria are nothing but a distraction
For governments in crisis, paranoia and misinformation are great weapons to avert our attention away from their mistakes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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 postman was late. My dog pooped in the street. Local schools face budget cuts. The Windrush generation have their citizenship rights threatened and terrorists are everywhere. And the link? It’s all the fault of the Russians.
Such is the state of meltdown in national politics that paranoia and misinformation form the principal “avoidance” weapons the Tories now have for deflecting attention from the mess they are in.
As Judgement Day approaches in the Brexit debacle, government deflections will become all the more bizarre.
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