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 17th Mar 2025 These cuts betray Labour’s basic principles The decision to cut billions from support for vulnerable people while refusing to tax the wealthy shows how far our party has drifted from its core purpose, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
Tuesday 18th Mar 2025 From colony to curriculum gap: the erasure of Irish history in Britain From colonialism to the Troubles, the story of England’s first colony is one of exploitation, resistance, and solidarity — and one we should fight to ensure is told, writes teacher ROBERT POOLE
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 The ceasefire that wasn’t: why Palestine protests must continue As Israel cuts off electricity and water while threatening to ‘unleash hell,’ the British Establishment’s calls to end demonstrations only expose their own deep complicity in the ongoing oppression of Palestine, argues BEN JAMAL
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 Nestle worker self-immolates in Pakistan court Asif Jutt, a long-term Nestle employee, was fired by the management for trying to form a union. He self-immolated after a decade-long legal battle, reports ABDUL RAHMAN
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 The dangerous confusion over Covid transmission The NHS continues to say Covid spreads primarily through ‘droplet and touch’ while the WHO emphasises airborne transmission, meaning vulnerable patients and healthcare workers face unnecessary risks, reports RUTH HUNT
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 Campaigning for workers’ rights in the south west As trade unionists gather for their annual conference, battles against health service privatisation and exploitation of migrant workers highlight the urgent need to counter Reform’s divisive message, writes KERRY BAIGENT
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 Aw That North Sea oil: Britain’s squandered windfall As Starmer seeks his ‘Falklands moment’ while planning £6 billion in welfare cuts, a historical pattern repeats itself — natural resources weaponised against the working class rather than used for their benefit, writes MATT KERR
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 Child Sexual Exploitation: a British human rights scandal ANN CZERNIK concludes her three-part series on the hidden scale of child sexual exploitation in Britain
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 Recollections of the Miners’ Strike: roadblocks and arrests In the first of four extracts from her new memoir, former NUM headquarters staff HILARY CAVE recalls challenging police intimidation during the miners’ strike, exposing how the full machinery of state was deployed against the working class
Saturday 15th Mar 2025 Europe’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ risks catastrophic escalation As Macron and Merz propose French nuclear-armed jets be stationed in Poland and Germany, the dangerous implications for peace and the possibility of nuclear confrontation grow, warns SOPHIE BOLT
