Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Dynamic protein interactions – the new ‘secret of life’?
New research into how proteins bind in cells offers exciting possibilities, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
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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
SCIENTISTS are suckers for stories of discovery. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick went for a drink in The Eagle pub in Cambridge after having worked out their model of the DNA double helix.
According to Watson, Crick announced to the other bemused drinkers: “We have found the secret of life.”
A great story — except that, according to Crick, he never said it. But the story became so memorable that it stuck.
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RICHARD SHILLCOCK examines an enjoyable, but philosophically conventional book, and urges Marxists to employ their capacity to embrace the totality in any explanation
JOHN GREEN’s palate is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories
New research into mutations in sperm helps us better understand why they occur, while debunking a few myths in the process, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
GORDON PARSONS is enthralled by an erudite and entertaining account of where the language we speak came from