Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
THE international coronavirus pandemic has shown more than ever how both in society here in Britain and in terms of different countries and continents all over the globe, we are more intertwined that ever.
In this situation, there are two possible responses. Either both societies and international relations come out of this crisis with the values of solidarity and humanitarianism strengthened.
Or we see a new strengthening of the politics of Trump, the Brazilian far-right President Bolsonaro and others triumph, a politics that is prepared to sacrifice the health and lives of the poorest around the globe for future mega-profits for the 1 per cent.
One issue that has come to the fore during this crisis internationally, has been that of the vast amounts of debt low-income countries around the world “owe” to the big (often formerly colonial) powers, including through global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank.
ADRIAN WEIR charts the intercontinental trade union solidarity with Cuba and its desperate predicament
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
While Hardie, MacDonald and Wilson faced down war pressure from their own Establishment, today’s leadership appears to have forgotten that opposing imperial adventures has historically defined Labour’s moral authority, writes KEITH FLETT
DAVID RABY reports on the progressive administration in Mexico, which continues to overcome far-left wreckers on the edges of a teaching union, the murderous violence of the cartels, the ploys of the traditional right wing, and Trump’s provocations



