Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The Tories have let us down on law and order
Austerity, cuts and privatisation have devastated our justice system and put the public in danger, explains CHARLEY ALLAN
Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Home Secretary Priti Patel (right) at the Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Convention Centre
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
HOME SECRETARY Priti Patel’s absurd claim yesterday that Labour’s policies would lead to an extra 52 murders a year was cooked up by the Conservative’s research department, so of course can’t be taken seriously, but it will still be used to reinforce the ruling party’s “law and order” narrative.
What the Tories don’t want you to know is that it’s actually their savage cuts to the criminal justice system and failed probation privatisation that have put the public at greater risk.
Everyone knows about the steep drop in police numbers, but at Prime Minister’s Questions back in March, Jeremy Corbyn revealed: “The number of rapes, murders and other serious crimes committed by offenders on parole has risen by more than 50 per cent since the privatisation of the probation service was introduced four years ago.”
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