Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Why we are fighting back against Boris Johnson’s smash-and-grab raid
This is not just a struggle for democracy — it is for a society that works for the 99 per cent, writes RICHARD BURGON MP
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
OUR democratic rights have been hard fought for. From those killed 200 years ago at the Peterloo Massacre after demanding universal suffrage to the inspiring activists who secured women the vote a century ago and the Chartists to whom our labour movement owes so much, our democratic rights have been wrested from the ruling elite by mass movements.
But the struggle for democracy has never been fought in a vacuum. It has always been linked to the wider battle for social justice. And that’s true today too.
Those protesting at Peterloo were also opposing the biting poverty they faced as the infamous Corn Laws that had left them with poverty wages and without enough bread to live on.
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