Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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East Germany tropes and hyper-individualism
NICK WRIGHT takes issue with a noxious narrative that seeks to portray coronavirus social mixing rules as ‘Stasi-like’
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
HOW did socialist Germany’s Ministry of State Security replace the Gestapo as the bogey man to frighten liberals out of their skins?
And why is it that the confected reputation of an organisation set up by anti-Nazi activists and International Brigade veterans to defend socialism and working-class power is mobilised to frighten socialists out of their politics?
Since the dissolution of socialist Germany, brand management has turned the Stasi into a media trope for lazy journalists whenever the hyper-individualism of contemporary capitalism meets resistance.
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