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
Refugee-hate and rabble-rousing: who are Patriotic Alternative?
LOUISE RAW talks with anti-fascists who found themselves having to physically protect from attack a Knowsley hotel where refugees were being housed, and lifts the lid on some of the far-right thugs who have been stirring up trouble around the country
JAMES SHAND was 30 years old in when he left his home in Southbrook Road, Streatham, to drive 250 miles to Rhyl in north Wales. He was going, he thought, to meet and have sex with a girl he’d so far only “met” online.
The plan was to pick her up and then drive to Warrington, where Shand had booked a hotel room (with one, double, bed).
But he got the shock of his life instead — north Wales police officers stopped and arrested him on the A55.
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