Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Only Labour can tackle the inequality that shames our nation
A Labour government led by Corbyn will understand grotesque inequality as endemic of a rotten system that needs to be overhauled, says RICHARD BURGON MP
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
WHILE looking at the newspapers recently, two stories on the brutal economic reality faced by so many in our society appeared in what may be considered to be unlikely places.
The front page of the Daily Express last Tuesday had the headline “Fury as energy bills soar again,” going on to explain that “Millions of families face a ‘devastating’ energy bill hike as critics warned the price cap is fuelling debt and misery.”
The piece went on to discuss “one of the biggest price rises in a decade” and reported that “charities warned millions will have ‘no choice but to suffer in cold and dangerous homes’ while the Big Six energy firms continue to rake in huge profits.”
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We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
