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
IN the last week of August this year, a 40th anniversary commemorative march began from Cardiff to the former site of Greenham Common airbase in Berkshire, marking the route taken in 1981 by Women for Life on Earth, against the placement of US nuclear missiles in Britain.
Peace camps established at the base became high profile in press and television reports, noted for their lasting resilience and activism.
A prominent figure in the peace movement at this time was Bruce Kent, now honorary vice-president of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), having been its general secretary and chair during the peak of media spotlight on Greenham.
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
SOLOMON HUGHES explains how the PM is channelling the spirit of Reagan and Thatcher with a ‘two-tier’ nuclear deterrent, whose Greenham Common predecessor was eventually fought off by a bunch of ‘punks and crazies’



