Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Thatcherite economics, Enoch Powell’s policies and repression
The cost-of-living crisis is no ‘accident’ – it’s deliberate policy by the Tory government, writes DIANE ABBOTT
TORIES OUT! The People's Assembly Against Austerity protest near Downing Street on April 2 2022
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 media reaction to the Queen’s Speech was rather odd. Apart from a couple of die-hard Boris Johnson supporters (yes, I know), the overwhelming majority of the commentary was negative, even including The Times newspaper, as well as The Guardian and others.
This reflects the government’s deep unpopularity and general dissatisfaction with the series of crises it has caused or contributed to.
But there was also a widespread misunderstanding, one the labour movement should not make.
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