Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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By appointment: Tory-fying the state
This era of crony conservatism has been characterised by sticking failed politicians into any state body available — sometimes to neutralise it, sometimes for a favour down the line, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
TORY INSTALLATIONS: (L-R) Nick Herbert, David Willetts, Julia Mulligan
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
YOU think some burnt-out Conservative Party figure, some terrible old former minister from yesterday, is gone; the small space they occupied in your mind can now be used for something more useful.
Only it turns out you can’t. Because the Tories are increasingly busy rejuvenating their old assets by giving them new salaried jobs as officials.
Caroline Spelman is the latest. She was the Tory environment secretary from 2010-12, among other roles. She stood down from Parliament in 2019 because she was sick of Tory infighting over Brexit (Spelman favoured Remain).
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