Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Midsummer magic
EXHUBERANCE AND DARING: Bonfire at the Saint John festivities in Madrid’s neighbourhood of Fuenlabrada
[Pic: Ayuntamiento de Fuenlabrada/flickr/CC]
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
STANDING around at Stonehenge. Smoking too much weed. Bonkers dancing. That’s one way of celebrating the solstice. Linking hands in a ring on a medieval mound in a municipal park and singing circle songs as the cloudy grey dawn lightens is another. All good.
I’ve learnt better ways to do it, though — for myself.
It’s three weeks now since Midsummer, but I’m still enjoying the memories of one of the best and longest I’ve celebrated… so no apologies for this piece, despite its late timing.
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