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 Jun 2024 Macron’s gamble blows up French politics The snap election call has spectacularly backfired, with the right and centre furiously backstabbing itself into oblivion, and the left, from the communists to social democrats, quickly uniting into a New Popular Front, writes NICK WRIGHT
Wednesday 19th Jun 2024 The origins of Juneteenth LUKE DANIELS recalls the origin of the celebrations, as the end of the US civil war in 1865 saw the Emancipation Proclamation finally brought into effect and slaves were granted their freedom
Wednesday 19th Jun 2024 The New Popular Front in France and the balance of class forces Amid an enormously dynamic situation, can Le Pen’s National Rally be stopped in the forthcoming snap election and what role will the new left-wing anti-fascist pact play, asks KEVIN OVENDEN
Wednesday 19th Jun 2024 Science and Society Ants have been talking for a long time Although the study of ants can be interpreted to suit any political or philosophical argument it can fuel organisational imagination, write Rox Middleton, Liam Shaw and Miriam Gauntlett
Wednesday 19th Jun 2024 The voices of prostitution survivors must be heard – including at the UN Is the United Nations finally recognising that the sex trade is a form of exploitation and a breach of human rights? LUBA FEIN welcomes a new report which suggests that might be the case
Wednesday 19th Jun 2024 The future of the NHS is on the line As a member-led union, Unison must put pressure on Labour as the likely party of the next government to defend our health service as a vital public service, says IAIN MOONEY
Tuesday 18th Jun 2024 Britain’s young workers demand better With the Unison national delegate conference 2024 getting started and just 16 days to go until the general election, RUBEN BRETT sets out what young workers need from an incoming Labour government
Tuesday 18th Jun 2024 Unison is gearing up for a change of government As well as sharing the lessons of our successful adoption of the organising model, our conference aims to secure commitments from Labour to a national care service and justice for Palestine, writes ANDY CHAFFER
Tuesday 18th Jun 2024 Eyes Left Starmer’s hollow manifesto rings last gasps of centrism The Labour leader’s threadbare platform exposes the bankruptcy of liberal orthodoxy, not just here in Britain but as an era that is ending, with the far right waiting in the wings, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 18th Jun 2024 Voices of Scotland The fight to save Glasgow Trade Union Education Centre needs the support of the entire movement The city of Jimmy Reid, Mary McArthur and other great class fighters must not be left without trade union learning provision, says NEIL FINDLAY
