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
Setting out a plan for returning to school
HANK ROBERTS suggests five tests for a safe return to the classroom: retain, remove, restore, rebuild and reinstate
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
BORIS JOHNSON and his government have already failed in their attempt to restart all primary schools on a single common start date of June 1 and with all three chosen groups – reception, year one and year six.
For a safe return, to start with year six would have been better. So would starting it in a test area or areas where the R number (the number of people someone with the virus could infect) is well below one.
Most importantly, it would have been better to propose a start date for a phased return after the measures for tracking and testing were fully established and had been tested for reliability.
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