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
Is crime everywhere? Be careful what you read on social media
Take care with online coverage, says PAUL DONOVAN
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
“GOOD morning. Thanks to everybody for your posts concerning the escalation of crime. If any members have a spare half-hour to walk around the streets during the day, especially after school time, keep a look out and report anyone suspicious.”
So read a post on a community hub in a middle-class, east London suburb, where the threat of crime has been hyped up out of all proportion to what is actually happening on the streets.
Crime levels have certainly grown nationally over recent times, no doubt helped by central government cuts in police budgets.
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