Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The fight against this terrible government must go on
Despite the weak leadership, Labour conference saw steps towards a £15 minimum wage, a Green New Deal and global peace — on the other hand the Tories are overseeing climate change, poverty and Covid chaos. The left must keep fighting, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Protesters against the Conservatives in Manchester this weekend
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
I FIRST joined the Labour Party many years ago because I wanted to change the world for the better.
I am sure that the overwhelming majority of members could say the same, however recently they joined.
But I was quite surprised to discover that many of those people who joined in my era had given up any of their idealism, or enthusiasm, or even hope.
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