Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Energy giants get out the begging bowl
SOLOMON HUGHES reports from Tory Party conference where E.ON and EDF were calling for government action to preserve their profits as thousands of customers struggle to pay their bills
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
THE chief executive of E.ON UK, one of the “Big Six” British energy firms, told Tory conference it was “imperative” the government step in this winter because people are “struggling to pay” for heating as “a section of our customers cannot pay their energy bill.”
A UK director of EDF also told the same fringe meeting the government had to act as people are “struggling.”
It was a grim message, delivered to Treasury Minister Gareth Davies at a fringe meeting of the Thatcherite Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).
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