Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The Tories are far worse than simply incompetent
Of course the government is badly organised, but its response to the pandemic is deliberate — it is ideological cronyism on an industrial scale and the left needs to call that out, writes JON TRICKETT 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
SOME people in senior positions in the labour movement are arguing that our central attack on the Tories should be to show that they are incompetent and that Labour would be much more capable of handling the multiple crises facing the country.
The charge is incompetence — and the verdict is that they are guilty. However, it is far from clear that this ought to be the central point of Labour’s critique.
Let’s start with the charge. This bunch is perhaps the most incompetent shower ever to be elected into office in our country since universal suffrage was introduced.
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