Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Election take: Labour can’t ignore the constitutional question
by Neil Findlay, outgoing Labour MSP
Outgoing MSP Neil Findlay
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
IT’S very clear that Anas Sarwar had a decent campaign. There was no internal criticism of the way the campaign was run, and he had his team at the helm throughout.
Like previous leaders, he attempted to get the election onto issues of health, education and jobs — badged up as a “national recovery.”
But the reality is that this was just a repeat of the strategy that has been tried in the past, where the likes of Kezia Dugdale spoke about “kids not cuts” and working together.
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