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
GIVEN the recent developments both in Parliament and on the streets, we should recall what Georgi Dimitrov said1935.
Fascism was not something “over and above” capitalism — even though that was its claim. Nor was it primarily an expression of the despair of the lower middle class — even though this composed part of its base.
It was: “The open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today



