Paul Hampton reviews True Mission: Socialists and the Labor Party in the US by Eric Chester (Pluto 2004, £14.99) The debate about working class representation in the United States takes place in very different conditions from those we encounter in Britain. However, discussions on the US left over the last hundred years are very instructive both for our concerns in Britain and for American comrades today. True Mission discusses the history of third party efforts in the United States over the past 120 years.