Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Forget the 'progressive alliance' — only outright victory will do
NICK WRIGHT argues that despite the nationwide abandonment of the blatantly corrupt and venal Tories, any lash-up with the Lib Dems is doomed to fail — the left must instead mobilise the voiceless and voteless
The vagaries of Britain’s unrepresentative first-past-the-post election system has induced a deluded state of mind in some people who conclude that a “progressive alliance” is the way to remove the Tories from office — it won't work
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
BORIS JOHNSON seems set to win the unpopularity stakes. He has managed this by his own efforts and with little help from the Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer, leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, whose own popularity rating has slipped even as the Prime Minister’s plummeted.
The old Cold War joke had it that the biggest political party in Britain was the party of ex-communists — a category that once included a Labour chancellor of the exchequer and today includes the odd Guardian leader writer — and even odder Times columnist.
Today the Party of Defecting Tory Voters, which by all accounts, may allow the election of a Lib Dem in place of the disgraced Tory Owen Paterson, is even more substantial.
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