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
TWO iconic films are being shown at a famed east London arthouse cinema tomorrow afternoon marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Racist Alliance (ARA).
The Hackney council-owned Rio will be screening The Protector, made for ITV by radical Black Jewish film-maker Orson Nava and the award-winning Wonderful World ARA cinema advertisement by acclaimed movie director Zak Ove.
Margaret Busby, the former chair of the Booker Prize judges, will be doing a Q&A with the film-makers.
The pioneering activist understood that freedom could only be won through solidarity across communities. Her legacy offers vital lessons at a time when progressive politics risks losing that shared purpose
The Morning Star republishes PRAGNA PATEL’s speech at the annual commemoration of Claudia Jones on February 22 2026
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
On the 121st anniversary of communist Claudia Jones’s birth ROGER McKENZIE looks at political events that shaped her, and those she helped shape



