Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Monarchies don't 'defend democracy' — just ask the Greeks
One royal family attending the late Queen's funeral should have also laid to rest strange illusions in our monarchy being a safeguard against a fascist dictatorship — in 1967 king Constantine ushered one in, explains SOLOMON HUGHES
DICTATORS: (left to right) StylianosPattakos, Georgios Papadopoulos
and Nikolaos Makarezos lead the 1967 coup
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
LIBERAL fans of the dead Queen and new King argue Britain’s constitutional monarch guards against the dangers of presidential power. It’s the argument that you can’t ask for anything better, because you’ll just end up making it worse.
Royalty promotes a general sense of deference and tradition but doesn’t hold much political power. By having a ceremonial head of state, we avoid a powerful president, who could be worse. In an extreme version of this argument, monarchy can save a country from fascism.
George Orwell argued this during WWII: “A French journalist said to me once that the monarchy was one of the things that has saved Britain from fascism.
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