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
Northern Irish women are an unstoppable force to be reckoned with
This year has seen a resurgence of the women’s movement and Helen Crickard sees every reason for sisters to be optimistic
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
THE Time Is Now — Women Rise Up is the theme for Northern Ireland International Women’s Day 2019, decided by Reclaim the Agenda, which campaigns on six key themes.
A life free from poverty and discrimination where women are equally represented as decision-makers.
To have a life free from domestic violence and sexual abuse, to have access to good affordable and flexible childcare and to have a healthcare that meets our particular needs which covers full abortion rights, and we make no apology for that.
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