Jeremy Corbyn

Entire neighbourhoods flattened. Human beings torn to pieces or buried under the rubble. People shot as they queue for a bag of flour. Words cannot begin to describe the suffering that Palestinians have endured. Israel's genocide in Gaza could have been prevented, but our political leaders chose to participate instead. The Gaza Tribunal uncovers the true scale of Britain's complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our age. This groundbreaking inquiry brings together original testimony from Palestinian survivors, journalists, human rights campaigners, international legal experts and whistleblowers, to evidence both the human reality of the genocide, and the ways in which it was enabled by the British government. The Gaza Tribunal combines an invaluable historical repository of evidence with the urgent call for its investigation. Crimes against humanity demand truth and accountability, without which there can be no justice.

A 'new Mexican revolution' in the time of TrumpIn Mexico in Transformation, David Raby argues that since 2018 Mexico has undergone a process of change which no-one anticipated and which is nothing short of revolutionary. The 2018 victory of Andr s Manuel L pez Obrador, usually known by his initials AMLO, and his Morena movement began a multi-dimensional programme of social change, referred to as the Fourth Transformation. This has been cemented by the subsequent victory of Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first female president. The Fourth Transformation includes the fight against corruption, including the war on tax evasion. Mexico's restoration of energy sovereignty is also crucial move, gaining national control of oil, gas, electric power and lithium has fundamentally transformed the country's prospectsProgressive welfare programmes such as public universal pensions, restoration of free public education, free universal healthcare and many others increase the economic scope of the public sphere on a scale which has few if any parallels in the "Western world". Participatory democracy is also advancing as is the constitutional recognition of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican rights. The administration of President Donald Trump in the US poses a threat to its southern neighbour with threats of trade wars and border tensions but Mexico's unflinching stand of dignity and independence has earned praise from across Latin America and the world, and its strong economic and political bargaining position may enable Mexico to resist US hostility successfully.

Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour’s election slogan “For the many, not the few.” That slogan, inspired by Shelley’s famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, points to something else the two have in common: a lifelong enthusiasm for poetry. In this sparkling anthology they discuss the poems that have moved and enlightened them. Their choices travel over centuries and continents, with poets ranging from Shakespeare and Juana de la Cruz, through William Blake and Emily Dickinson, to Bertolt Brecht, Stevie Smith and Linton Kwesi Johnson. Rounding out the collection are appreciations of poems selected by guest contributors Melissa Benn, Rob Delaney, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ken Loach, Morag Livingstone, Francesca Martinez, Karie Murphy, Maxine Peake, Michael Rosen, Alexei Sayle and Gary Younge. With the burgeoning popularity of poetry, especially among Gen Z, this joyful celebration of the power of verse is bound to delight and inspire across a wide audience. All royalties from sales of this book will be donated to the Peace and Justice Project.

Steeped in conspiracy, scandal and socialism – the disappearance of radical icon Victor Grayson is a puzzle that’s never been solved. A firebrand and Labour politician who rose to prominence in the early twentieth century, Grayson was idolised by hundreds of thousands of Britons but despised by the establishment. After a tumultuous life, he walked out of his London apartment in September 1920 and was never seen again. After a century, new documents have come to light. Fragments of an unpublished autobiography, letters to his lovers (both men and women), leading political and literary figures including H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw, and testimonies from members of the Labour elite such as Clement Attlee have revealed the real Victor Grayson. New research has uncovered the true events leading up to his disappearance and suggests that he was actually blackmailed by his former Party. In a time when homosexuality was illegal, and socialism an international threat to capitalism, Grayson was a clear target for those wanting to stamp out dissent. This extraordinary biography reinstates to history a man who laid the foundations for a whole generation of militant socialists in Britain.