Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Tony Benn's ideas have remained as pertinent as ever
Our commitment to ongoing struggles IS the best way to remember Tony Benn, writes RICHARD BURGON
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
It was four years ago this week that Tony Benn died. He was one of Labour’s greatest ever MPs, socialist thinkers and socialist activists.
That’s why he was demonised in the right-wing press and why The Sun referred to him as “the most dangerous man in Britain.”
Benn encouraged me and countless others. I will never forget when, as a young Labour activist, I received a Christmas card from him, which simply said “Keep on Going!” I and many thousands more did just that.
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