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
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The future of the NHS is on the line
As a member-led union, Unison must put pressure on Labour as the likely party of the next government to defend our health service as a vital public service, says IAIN MOONEY
Ambulance workers on the picket line outside London Ambulance Service (LAS) in Deptford, south-east London, during a strike by members of the Unison union in the long-running dispute over pay and staffing, February 10, 2023
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
THIS year’s Unison national delegate conference takes place just weeks before a general election. There couldn’t be a more opportune time for us to highlight key changes that need to be made in our country.
As Britain’s largest healthcare union, it is vital that we push to put NHS and social care to the top of the new government’s agenda.
The history of the past 30 years has shown the continued failure of outsourcing and privatisation of our services. From the creation of private finance initiatives in 1992, to the Health and Care Act of 2012.
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