Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Can Israel exist without the US?
Perhaps US aid in 1981 was almost 10 percent of Israel’s economy — in 2020, the nearly $4 billion donation was closer to 1 per cent. Those struggling against the occupation of Palestine must recognise our oppressor’s growing independence, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
WHEN Russian and Ukrainian delegations meeting in Turkey on March 29 reached an initial understanding regarding a list of countries that could serve as security guarantors for Kiev should an agreement be struck, Israel appeared on the list.
The other countries included the US, Britain, China, Russia, France, Turkey, Germany, Canada, Italy and Poland.
One may explain Israel’s political significance to the Russian-Ukrainian talks based on Tel Aviv’s strong ties with Kiev, as opposed to Russia’s trust in Israel. This is insufficient to rationalise how Israel has managed to acquire relevance in an international conflict, arguably the most serious since WWII.
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