Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The importance of knowing our own strength: the anti-war movement and British foreign policy
We must resist the tendency to see our protests for peace as failures if they do not end a specific conflict: looking at the evidence from Vietnam to Iraq, they have had a profound effect on curtailing military aggression, explains IAN SINCLAIR
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
THOUGH considered an abject failure by many, the enormous British anti-war movement against the 2003 Iraq War has had a number of long-lasting impacts on British politics and society.
One unfortunate effect is, nearly 20 years later, the movement’s inability to stop the invasion continues to breed defeatism when it comes to the general public influencing British foreign policy.
For example, discussing the large-scale British protests against the recent Israeli bombardment of Gaza, one Middle East scholar quipped on Twitter, “If history has taught me anything, when people in Britain march against immoral actions in the Middle East, their government will almost certainly ignore them.”
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