Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Even now, Scottish Labour cannot simply wait for its rivals to fail
Under Sturgeon, SNP failures were inevitable — their empty opposition to the Tories masked their timid, neoliberal core. We must now wrongfoot them with an agenda of radical constitutional change, writes PAULINE BRYAN
LEADING FROM THE FRONT: (Above) Former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard (right), joins teachers on the picket line outside Falkirk High School in Stirlingshire, in a protest over pay on January 27 2023
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
THE decision of Nicola Sturgeon to stand down as First Minister of Scotland was sudden, but not unexpected.
There has been speculation on her future for months despite her claim just two weeks ago that she had plenty in her tank to keep going.
Recently support for both her as First Minister and for independence has shown signs of sagging.
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VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
