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
Scotland has a government more interested in performance than policy
STEPHEN LOW casts a sceptical eye on a supposedly ‘new era’ for the SNP under Humza Yousaf
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS: New SNP leader Humza Yousaf
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
“ALL WE ask is the opportunity to serve,” said Humza Yousaf on becoming SNP leader.
That he chose to quote Labour’s John Smith was a marvellously telling moment.
Not, though, because there is much political overlap between Smith’s mildly reformist social democracy and the SNP’s palliative neoliberalism. Rather it was illustrative of the gulf between appearance and reality in governing Scotland.
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