Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Key workers need a pay rise – and they need it now
Unions have an opportunity to join together at national level and put in the type of pay claims that could start to raise all key workers and their families out of poverty for good, argues HELEN O’CONNOR
Signs thanking key workers and the NHS are seen in South London
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
FOLLOWING the financial crash of 2008, billions were poured into bailing out the financial sector.
The people of Britain ended up paying a heavy price for this financial crisis that they didn’t create.
The resulting human suffering was officially called “austerity” as people found they couldn’t afford to buy enough food, they couldn’t get housing any more, their benefits were cut, their pay was frozen and services they relied on as a lifeline disappeared forever.
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