Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Legalised sleaze: please keep it subtle
Supposedly, the revolving door between working for the government and working on the government for private business interests is governed by a set of rules: you really wouldn't know it, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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 latest business appointment data shows lobbying and consultancy businesses aiming to influence the government are also busy appointing former top civil servants from related departments.
The “business appointment rules” manage the revolving door for director and deputy director-level civil servants leaving their top government jobs for places in industry.
The rules are supposed to stop private companies from getting too much influence on the government by poaching these top insiders. Many corporations want to either win government contracts or change government regulations — and they have money to spend to help them do it.
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