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
Republicans’ rabid anti-communism is a sign of their political weakness
Trump and his supporters are cranking up the McCarthyite rhetoric in a desperate bid to make sure not even one ‘Maga’ loyalist stays home on election day, says CJ ATKINS
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
JOE McCARTHY would have fit right in at this year’s Republican National Convention.
Denouncing communists — both real and, more often than not, imaginary — was bread and butter for the 1950s red-baiting senator from Wisconsin.
At the dawn of the cold war, the bogeyman of the Soviet Union was the stick used to beat back a strong labour movement and a growing left in the United States.
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