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
What to make of Lee Anderson’s political trajectory?
While the Labour-turned-Tory-turned-Reform UK politician might hold deeply objectionable views, there are lessons to be drawn about class discontent and how socialist leadership should respond, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Newly-defected former Conservative deputy chairman Lee Anderson MP campaigns for the Reform Party in his constituency of Ashfield, Nottinghamshire on the Reform campaign bus, March 15, 202
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
WILL Lee Anderson’s name resonate in histories of British politics?
Stranger things have happened, like the premiership of Liz Truss, the free market ideologue done in by the markets.
Truss now seems to be pitching for the deranged US right-wing conference circuit, a not badly paid gig if you can land it.
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Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT