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
ATTEMPTS to ban nuclear weapons are nothing new and usually the impetus comes from the Global South.
The great news at the weekend about the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) — it’s reached the 50 ratifications needed to become international law — is no exception.
If you look at the list of 50 states, they are overwhelmingly from Africa and Latin America; indeed both continents are already self-organised into nuclear weapons-free zones via the Treaty of Pelindaba and the Treaty of Tlatelolco.
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7



