Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Afghanistan was a war without a just cause, and simply a continuation of Western imperialism
The crisis in Afghanistan demonstrates that Western interventions only serve to create power vacuums that exacerbate the suffering of innocent people, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
A US soldier in Kabul
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 rapidly accelerating crisis in Afghanistan has been heartbreaking to witness.
Yet even more distressing has been the cruel, ignorant response of the British government — which has been one of the key architects of the disaster.
We have learnt that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab could not be bothered to take a five-minute break from his holiday to make a phone call that could have saved the lives of many Afghans who had helped the British occupation.
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