Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Establishment forces don’t like the new politics of Britain
The latest Brexit manoeuvrings of Farage, Umunna and the Lib Dems show further talk of a ‘Progressive Alliance’ would be misplaced, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron speaking at a Britain Stronger In Europe rally in Birmingham
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
POLITICS has changed and it “isn’t going back into the old box where it was before.”
That is how Jeremy Corbyn responded six months ago almost to the day as the election showed a historic 10-point surge for the Labour Party.
Among those most desperate to shift politics back to before the Corbyn-Labour advance is Nigel Farage, whose Ukip was annihilated in June last year.
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