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 LATEST dire warning about the threat posed by climate change came recently from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which told of how the world has 12 years to stop temperatures rising above 1.5 degrees.
The effects, if this happens, will be catastrophic, bringing more droughts, floods, wars, water shortages and thousands of environmental refugees.
The delay in taking action to confront climate change, will also see the cost rise inexorably.
IAN SINCLAIR recommends an important and timely book for climate politics right now and in the future
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Reaching co-operation is supposed to be the beginning, not the end, of global climate governance, argues LISA VANHALA



