Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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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
“WHEN I pay for a view, I expect something more interesting than that,” exclaims hearing aid refusenik Mrs Richards, one of Fawlty Towers’s most difficult customers. “That is Torquay, madam,” Basil Fawlty replies.
My impressions of the Devon seaside town have largely been directed by the classic comedy series along with a vague association with Agatha Christie — until my arrival there for the first time on Thursday.
At the RMT LGBT+ conference, which I was in town for, I heard a fascinating presentation of “Gay Torquay” from Kevin Dixon of the Torbay Trades Council. A bit of research turned up other famous residents include Emperor Haile Selassie and Aleister Crowley.
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