Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Henry Hetherington and the Fiend Aristocracy
MAT COWARD introduces a remarkable radical publisher and his remarkable manifesto
LONG OVERDUE: (L to R) Portrait of Henry Hetherington, published in Reynold's political instructor, No13 February 2 1850; Poor Man's Guardian, a UK radical paper Saturday 13 August 1831 edition. Mottoes: 'Published in defiance of ‘law,’, to try the power of ‘might’ against ‘right".' 'Knowledge is power’
[(L to R) George WM Reynolds both Public domain]
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
HOW’S this for a manifesto?
Extirpation of the Fiend Aristocracy
Establishment of a Republic
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