Zarah Sultana loves to pose as a champion of the working class, seeing the world through the lens of class struggle. Even, it seems, the war in Ukraine. In her latest interview, she calls Nato ‘an imperialist war machine’ and advocates for putting all our effort into ending the war, rather than making weapons, thereby giving money to those who profit from conflict. ‘Putin is a dictator, a gangster,’ she says, but ‘Zelensky isn’t a friend of the working class either’. She met Ukrainians and Russians in Paris, she adds, who explained this to her.

Sultana embodies the kind of British leftist who would do anything for the world’s working class except listen to them

I’d like to add my own voice to this debate. I think I’d qualify, in her book, as working class. I’m from a family that lived on

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