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
THE world is becoming a more and more dangerous place for working people.
A tragic war continues to rage in Ukraine, an unjustified Russian invasion provoked by Nato, the United States and Britain.
The same Western powers are preparing a new cold war against China, pivoting vast military resources to south-east Asia and conducting an economic, diplomatic and propaganda war.
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER



