IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Katheleen Edwards

MANIFESTO PRESS (manifestopress.coop) was founded 12 years ago as a non-profit design, publishing and distribution service to the labour, peace and solidarity movements.
Fifty books have been published, commissioned by Manifesto itself, in collaboration with trade union and solidarity movements and others as a service to organisations and authors who needed production and marketing assistance.
Publishing partners include the RMT, Cuba Solidarity Campaign, NUT, the Venezuelan embassy, Derby Trades Council, the International Brigade Memorial Trust, Rete di Comunisti, Communist Review, Marx Memorial Library, Connolly Association, the Communist Party and its History Group, Socialist Educational Association and the Education for Tomorrow collective.

Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT

Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT

Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT

From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT