Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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No Thatcher: the imminent blandness of Liz Truss
SOLOMON HUGHES recalls the Tory hopeful’s championing of tax havens at party conferences as one of the few distinguishing features of her unremarkable political career — nine of which have been as a minister
The record seems to be Truss is always happy to perform for an offshore tax avoidance lobby, as long as it is paying for the drinks to win over the crowd — it feels a lot more spiv than Tory patriotism
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
WITH the coronation of Liz Truss approaching, I had a look back through my files to see if I could find any clues to what Truss would do as PM.
Truss is trying to give off Thatcher signals, but her crass cosplay doesn’t seem very convincing.
Truss tried to hit her Iron Lady notes after the England women’s team Euro 2022 victory, claiming she would “channel the spirit of our Lionesses” and beat Keir Starmer, whom she branded a “plastic patriot.”
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