Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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A new funding agency for science claims it will be tolerant of failure – but the signs are that it aims only to replicate existing venture capitalism, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
CUTTING EDGE: Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) which can perform laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without human help
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
LAST month the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) announced the appointment of a new CEO, in line with its intention to launch around the end of this year.
Aria is a new funding agency modelled on venture capital funding for high-risk “moonshot” research that will sit alongside, although independent of the umbrella British research funding agency UK Research and Innovation.
The new CEO, Ilan Gur, has a background in venture capital.
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