Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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We need to commit to a more federal Britain
Everyone is rightly proud of the region or nation they are from — they deserve real tools to be able to improve it, argues NEIL FINDLAY MSP
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
SCOTTISH Labour cannot ignore or wish away constitutional realities a second longer. The issues of democracy, accountability, independence, devolution and regional and national identity are the issues that dominate the Scottish and, increasingly, the British political landscape.
If we look at governance across the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their parliaments or assemblies.
There is the Greater London Authority, metro mayors, county councils, district councils, unitary authorities, metropolitan districts, London boroughs, town and parish councils.
Not to mention the Houses of Commons, the Lords and previously the European Parliament.
This myriad of different levels of government, each with different powers and responsibilities governed by politicians elected under different voting systems, is a dog’s breakfast.
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