Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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1968: the year that turned Tony Benn to the left
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
IT IS the 50th anniversary of the events of 1968, events that shook the world, west and east, and did a good deal to give rise to many of the ideas and movements, from women’s and gay liberation to a new left politics, that were to be key features of the decades that followed.
For example, they certainly informed the socialist politics of the current leadership of the Labour Party.
How 1968 is remembered and assessed 50 years on is, as it were, up for grabs.
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