Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The Featherstone massacre: lessons for today
Little has changed in the ruling class's contempt for and ruthless exploitation of working people over the last 128 years, argues JON TRICKETT
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
SOME events leave an indelible mark on a community. They live long in the collective memory of a town and shape who we are, sometimes without us even realising it.
The Featherstone massacre of September 7 1893 is one of those events. Let me tell you what happened.
In the year 1893 the price of coal plummeted by 35 per cent. The owners of the mines feared this would reduce their profits and proposed to cut their workers’ wages by a quarter.
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