Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Smash the pay freeze and deliver for education workers
Teacher and NEU rep ROBERT POOLE looks at Westminster’s promises for education and comes to the conclusion that if there is hope it lies with the union
STATING THE OBVIOUS: Principle Matt Jones (centre) with students at Ark Globe Academy in London, as they receive their A-Level results in August 10, 2021; a student with a placard that says it all
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 Labour roadshow rolled into Brighton last week. Although you might have been forgiven for thinking it was the Antiques Roadshow going by the speeches from the Parliamentary Labour Party — with fine slogans from the Blair era being wheeled out, such as “tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” and “education, education, education.”
The leadership and shadow cabinet are trying their best to cosplay as friends of the working class while at the same time watering down or downright blocking any socialist motions, wooing businesses and attacking what is left of the left in the party.
But what are the Labour Party’s plans for education, I hear you cry. You may have missed the party’s announcements mainly because they were just fairly ordinary.
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