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
IT CAN’T come as a surprise that Labour has been thrown into a spin after the bruising it took in the Euro elections.
The politics was deeply confusing and the campaign was the complete antithesis of that of Labour’s 2017 general election.
The legion of Tory hopefuls wanting to succeed Theresa May will absorb media attention for the time being.
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
ELIZABETH SHORT recommends a bracing study of energy intensive AI and the race of such technology towards war profits
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT



