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
TOMORROW is a chance to elect a socialist prime minister in the country that gave the world Thatcherism and Blairism.
It is a historic election on a par with 1979. Every effort up to 10pm will make a difference.
However the results stack up, the campaign has already revealed fundamental fault lines. Among them is a crisis for the politics of the capitalist class and for the ruling bloc in Britain that has held such control for so long.
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
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
The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all



