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
ON November 18, just days before the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 242, the US State Department took its first step towards severing ties with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).
The timing of this decision could not be any more profound.
The first formal contact between the US and the PLO occurred in mid-December 1988, when US ambassador to Tunisia Robert H Pelletreau Jr picked up the phone to call the PLO headquarters in Tunis to schedule formal talks.
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
Israel’s messianic settler regime has moved beyond military containment to mass ethnic cleansing, making any two-state solution based on differential rights impossible — we must support the Palestinian demand for decolonisation, writes HUGH LANNING



