There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Why internationalism is at the heart of working-class solidarity
LIZ PAYNE shines a light on communist attitudes to global class struggle
Members of the British Battalion, Major Attlee Company, 15th International Brigade, displaying their banner during a lull in the fighting during the Spanish civil war of 1936-39
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
WORKING-CLASS internationalism is the hallmark of the communist movement worldwide.
This is celebrated in our new one-volume Communist Party history, published to mark our centenary and which we will launch on Saturday November 14.
What did the internationalism of the Communist Party of Britain look like during its first hundred years and what forms will it take going forward?
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