Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The woman who walked Wales
LYNNE WALSH introduces us to Ursula Martin, who, on being diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 32, decided to set off on a 3,700-mile trek, around her beloved Wales
Ursula Martin (right) at the finish line
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
THE list of things that conspire to make me an incipient Grumpy Old Woman grows longer, especially around March 8.
The insistence on “celebrating,” for one. We don’t have equal pay! Cause for complaint, rather than celebration, I think.
And another thing, people who “battle” illness, especially cancer. They’re always brave, they’re always fighters, they “overcome” or they “lose the fight.”
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