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
Asbestos deaths in schools will grow
HANK ROBERTS warns that new research predicts a catastrophic rise in asbestos-related deaths among former pupils and teachers as school buildings deteriorate, bursting the ‘it’s safe if not disturbed’ myth
An asbestos warning sign
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
ASBESTOS is the biggest killer industrial disease in Britain. It has the highest rate of mesothelioma deaths in the world. Over 5,000 are killed by asbestos disease every year — equivalent to one Grenfell-sized death toll every five days.
It is incurable. It is a terrible death. A death by slow suffocation due to an ever-increasing shortness of breath. Most victims die within 12 months. Some can linger for longer, just prolonging absolute misery and agony. It normally has a long latency period of between 30 to 50 years. Children are more susceptible than adults.
It was stunning to see on the front page of the Daily Mail (October 21) the headline “‘Tsunami’ of Asbestos Deaths in Schools” and the subheading, “Hundreds of thousands of former pupils and teachers could die, claims shock new report.”
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