Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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How the government is gaslighting the public on herd immunity
The Tories are keen to convince us their ‘do very little and let everyone catch it’ approach to Covid-19 never happened — we can't let them succeed, argues 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
“NEVER believe anything until it’s officially denied.” Seldom has Daily Worker journalist Claude Cockburn’s famous dictum been more apt.
Speaking on BBC Any Questions earlier this month, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said: “I do take issue with this idea that at any stage herd immunity was part of the [government’s] plan. It wasn’t.”
His claim reiterated Matt Hancock’s denial in the Sunday Telegraph on March 15. “Herd immunity is not a part of” the government’s plan to deal with coronavirus, the Health Secretary asserted. “That is a scientific concept, not a goal or a strategy.”
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