Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Keeping the spotlight on the West’s ongoing devastation of Afghanistan and Syria
Direct US-British military intervention may have receded for now, but the devastating effect of economic sanctions continues to kill in the same numbers as a war would — we cannot let the public look away yet, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Children in Afghanistan
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 1991 annual report from Amnesty International should be required reading for all media studies and journalism students.
“The Iraqi government headed by Saddam Hussein had been committing gross and widespread human rights abuses” in the 1980s, including using chemical weapons, the human rights organisation explained.
The report goes on to note that Amnesty International publicised gruesome evidence of the atrocities and appealed directly to the UN security council in 1988 to take urgent action. “However, the world’s governments and media took only token interest, and none of the UN bodies took action.”
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