Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The rigged private school sector must be abolished
Private schools serve to maintain the status quo and the old boys’ network. Teacher ROBERT POOLE explains why the AbolishEton campaign is seeking to bring such schools into the public sector
Etonians play the Eton wall game which was invented at the school
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
NEXT week we are about to have foisted upon us as prime minister yet another public schoolboy — most likely Boris Johnson, the 20th British prime minister to be educated at Eton. Or the head boy of Charterhouse Jeremy Hunt. Both products of the old boys’ network.
Nearly every prime minister in British history has had connections to the private school sector.
This is why last week we launched a grassroots Labour Party campaign calling for class war against the class-ridden system of private education which pervades Britain.
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