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 several thousand people who gathered in Parliament Square on the evening of Friday January 31 appeared from all the pictures that I saw to be mainly men of a certain age.
How can we characterise such a crowd? It was certainly not one of protest, since the object was to mark the departure of Britain from the EU, which was something achieved by the current Conservative government.
It may have had aspects of the mob to it, but reports suggest it simply dispersed fairly peacefully at the end of proceedings.
Inspired by a hit TV show, KEITH FLETT takes a look at the murky history of undercover class war
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets
Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right



