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
HONG KONG has become the main theatre of operations, overt and covert, of an increasingly ferocious struggle between China and Western imperialist powers.
Trade wars, Covid-19 conspiracy theories and China’s growing international influence provide a global backdrop to the conflict, but Hong Kong provides a very specific location.
Last week seven former British foreign secretaries, Labour and Tory, issued a joint letter to the current Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE



