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
Brexit seen as a game of football
Game on as ALAN SIMPSON proposes an unorthodox problem-tackling perspective
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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
You know a government is in trouble when its MPs start attacking each other with metaphors and acronyms.
Gone are the days when MPs jousted with swords, when the lines dividing each side of the House were drawn just more than “2 sword-widths apart.”
This wouldn’t be much help today, not because MPs now have ribbons to hang their swords on in the members’ cloakroom, but because the duelling is all on the Tories’ own benches. The source of the conflict is, of course, Brexit.
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