Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The global economy was rocking on a precipice – the coronavirus pushed it over
A nasty virus, a slow response, ill-conceived economic policies, an irresponsible price war – all contribute to a fear-driven market collapse, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
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
TO UNDERSTAND the global economic chaos endured over the last few weeks, it is essential to separate the proximate from the ultimate cause.
The immediate or proximate cause is the, often fatal, expanding contagion of the coronavirus (Covid-19).
The collapse of worldwide equity markets has been an immediate and widely noted effect of this proximate cause.
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