Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The second superpower: February 15 2003
Although it came very close, the enormous Stop the War demonstration 20 years ago did not stop the Iraq war – but we must remember the huge impact it had on Britain’s ability to wage future wars, says IAN SINCLAIR
VIBRANT: Anti-war demonstrators make their way down to piccadilly in central London in Hyde Park, February 2003
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
IN two key respects, there is a broad consensus about the February 15 2003 anti-Iraq war march.
First, it’s understood to be the largest political demonstration in British history, with over one million people marching in London.
Second, it is generally considered a total failure, something many on the left also believe.
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