City of temples hosts the 24th congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) As a delegate to the party’s 24th congress, HARSEV BAINS connects historical threads from Harry Pollitt’s 1954 visit to today’s challenges of building left unity against corporate-backed Hindu nationalism
Monday 08th Jul 2024 Anti-fascists remember the International Brigades as the far right stalks Europe once more This year’s International Brigade Memorial Trust commemoration took on an urgent tone, with warnings of ‘terrifying wave of fascism’ in Europe drawing parallels between 1930s Spain and today, reports LYNNE WALSH
Saturday 06th Jul 2024 Democracy and the Labour landslide So huge a majority on so small a vote points to the widening gulf between rulers and ruled and a deep crisis of bourgeois democracy, argues BEN CHACKO
Saturday 06th Jul 2024 The French left and right face a final showdown this Sunday The second and final vote this weekend pits the National Rally against a ‘Republican Front’ of leftists and centrists — but will the more right-wing side of this hastily assembled pact hold up, or will it side with Le Pen, asks ARKA BHADURI
Saturday 06th Jul 2024 Independence is no longer ‘the’ issue STEPHEN LOW looks at an election in Scotland that, for the first time in a decade, wasn’t a fight about flags
Saturday 06th Jul 2024 A beachhead for democracy survives in Islington North Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign was a built on trust and loyalty, where kindness actually counts for something, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER from north London
Saturday 06th Jul 2024 Aw That Hope, change, and Grangemouth As the Tory big beasts fell and pundits celebrated ‘change,’ MATT KERR greeted Labour’s victory with a cautious sense of hope for a nation in industrial decline
Saturday 06th Jul 2024 Starmer’s steel test starts in Port Talbot As Labour celebrates, the new PM should face immediate pressure to deliver on his steel promises here in Wales — nationalisation and worker ownership must be on the table too, argues LUKE FLETCHER MS
Friday 05th Jul 2024 A failure of a victory for Starmer With less than 34 per cent of votes cast on a turnout of just 60 per cent, no party has got so much for so little. This wasn’t so much a ‘Labour landslide’ as Tory collapse, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Friday 05th Jul 2024 Confronting Nato’s war summit in Washington As the alliance gathers in DC, its leaders will push for endless war in Ukraine and ignore the public appetite for peace talks. The world can’t afford to wait for this nuclear-armed war machine to dissolve itself, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
Friday 05th Jul 2024 France dangles over a far-right abyss Can the conservative, centre and left of French politics work out a complex dance of candidates standing aside for each other to prevent an outright, far-right victory this Sunday? NICK WRIGHT assesses
