Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Pay to play? Starmer courts the right money
Members aren't picking up the bill because they've left in droves, so Labour's relying on the charitable impulses of people like Anthony Watson and Deborah Mattinson — whose agenda you can probably already guess, 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
LABOUR’S leadership expected to be able to fundraise from the rich to replace income lost because Keir Starmer’s rightward march turned off members and trade unions — but it hasn’t really happened on any scale.
One exception is banker Anthony Watson, who is one of Labour’s few returning rich donors.
In March the Politico website reported “senior figures around Keir Starmer” want Labour general secretary David Evans sacked — reasons for ditching Evans including being “too slow” to “raise funds from private donors.”
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