Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Is Scottish independence the only way to ‘renew democracy?’
PAULINE BRYAN objects to the narrow scope of the SNP's new paper which fails to include any alternatives to full independence or keeping the status quo
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
THERE has been no summer break in Scotland for those engaged in party politics. The Scottish Conservatives have been caught up in the leadership election. The two candidates seem determined to rally support for independence by their obvious disdain for devolution.
In early July the Scottish Labour Party issued Better Government for the UK. It was announced as the first in a series of documents, but this first paper seems to have disappeared. It is possible that it was sidelined because, as Anas Sarwar said in his speech, Labour is now proposing a new senate where members should be directly elected, with a mandate to represent their nation or region.
The SNP government has so far produced two of what will be a series of papers under the collective title Building a New Scotland — the first was reviewed by Vince Mills in the Morning Star (No clarity on who really runs Scotland, July 5). This has now been followed by Renewing Democracy Through Independence.
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