Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The Labour Party’s anti-war traditions go back to its roots
Despite attempts to erase history, there has always been strong anti-imperialist pro-peace contingent in Labour and the wider movement, says KEITH FLETT
Labour Party legend the late Tony Benn addresses a Stop the War Coalition conference in 2004
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
TONY BLAIR made a point on turning his back on the labour movement and rejecting Labour Party history.
Despite having been MP for Sedgefield, in the north-east of England, he broke with tradition as leader and shunned the Durham Miners’ Gala.
His main interest was in developing the future for New Labour, although, had he studied history, he might have grasped that there was nothing all that new, in most respects, about his project.
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