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
The virus doesn’t know it’s Christmas
The government is ignoring the advice of the medical community by lifting restrictions over Christmas and forcing schools to remain open, warns HANK ROBERTS
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
AT a government briefing last week Health Secretary Matt Hancock, after stating that the level of coronavirus infections was “highest in secondary-aged pupils,” went on to say: “We need to do everything we can to stop the spread among school-aged children.”
Presumably further school closures is not a part of doing “everything we can to stop the spread.”
Under threat of legal action, schools are forced to stay fully open instead of going to online learning.
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