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
Thursday 20th Mar 2025 Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
Wednesday 19th Mar 2025 From worrying to worse: the assisted dying Bill has lost its safeguards The controversial legislation now threatens even more vulnerable people after the committee stage stripped away the key High Court safeguard that convinced many MPs to support it, writes Dr CAJETAN SKOWRONSKI
Wednesday 19th Mar 2025 Eyes Left The space to the left of Starmer is wide open With Labour abandoning its base through welfare cuts and warmongering, a genuine progressive alternative is urgently needed but must avoid any whiff of Trump infatuation syndrome and national populism, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 19th Mar 2025 The state attack on people's democratic rights must be resisted Ways of opposing the increasingly repressive measures from the British state against protesters will be discussed at the Arise Festival. BEN HAYES reports
Tuesday 18th Mar 2025 Palestine emerges as a domestic political issue in the US Despite appointing staunchly pro-Israel officials and approving billions in arms sales, the Trump administration faces a public increasingly viewing Palestine through a human rights lens, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 18th Mar 2025 China and Europe: a timely two-way endeavour China’s opening up empowers the world, and Sino-European co-operation especially holds immense potential, argues LIANG TAO, from infrastructure and industrial capacity to cultural exchange between two ancient civilisations
Tuesday 18th Mar 2025 NHS England’s abolition sets the stage for deep cuts to come Behind Starmer’s headline-grabbing abolition of NHS England lies a ruthless drive to centralise control so that cuts of £6.6 billion can be made — even if it means reducing cancer services and clinical staff, writes JOHN LISTER
Wednesday 19th Mar 2025 Duterte’s arrest: justice for the Filipino people won’t be found in the Hague While the West celebrates Duterte’s extradition, the selective application of international law reveals deeper geopolitical motives behind the prosecution of a leader from a poor, exploited nation, argues KENNY COYLE
Monday 17th Mar 2025 The left, work and benefits. Eating the rich? Starmer’s slash-and-burn approach to disability benefits represents a fundamental break with Labour’s founding mission to challenge the idle rich rather than punish the vulnerable poor, argues KEITH FLETT
Monday 17th Mar 2025 SWTUC: comradeship and class struggle at Croyde Bay Delegates gathered to confront a broad range of issues from declining membership and a rising far-right threat to devolution and fighting union-busting giants like Amazon, reports GARETH LOWE
