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
Rage, a wage and the machine
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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
IN a thought-provoking Guardian article, “As robots take our jobs, we need something else,” George Monbiot argued that the the future for humanity lies in voluntary work, underpinned by a universal basic income (UBI).
A slew of economists followed suit. Then the RSA joined in, suggesting that everyone under 55 be given £10,000 over two years to pursue training or caring activities.
They all begin from a premise that, as the RSA put it, “the link between hard work and fair pay has broken.”
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