Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The roots of this crisis go far deeper than Boris Johnson
As Boris Johnson’s fortunes falter, the true potential of Brexit may yet still be grasped by the building strike wave against the immiseration of post-Covid pay and benefit cuts, argues NICK WRIGHT
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
THERE IS a palpable sense of crisis attending every action and very utterance of the government.
The startling resignation of Munira Mirza, Johnson’s longest-serving consigliere, a veteran of his days as mayor of London and head of the Downing Street policy unit is just the most significant. Other escapees include the head of communications and chief of staff as well as less elevated functionaries.
Much of the week has been taken up by desperate measures to shore up Johnson’s operation with the appointment of new functionaries and of Jacob Rees Mogg as the bizarrely titled “Brexit opportunities minister.”
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