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
Stranded by politics: Homelessness and rough sleeping in the time of Covid-19
There is no forgiveness for renters who have struggled to keep up with payments during the pandemic, says JULIAN VIGO
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
“RENT arrears grants as eviction ban ends in Wales” and “Surge in homelessness under way with ending of the evictions ban for renters” — these are just a couple of headlines over the past weeks related to the reality unfolding now that the ban on evictions ended on May 31, just one month before the end of the furlough.
While Wales is rolling out a grant to support tenants with rent arrears as result of loss income due to the pandemic and lockdown, people on housing benefits are not eligible.
This situation speaks to the misrepresentations rife within major media, where, over the past weeks, we have similarly been bombarded with news of an economic boom since March.
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