Together we must turn the tide against the far-right menace JULIE SHERRY looks ahead to this weekend’s Stand Up to Racism and trade unions conference that will play a vital part in developing the urgent anti-fascist fightback
Friday 24th Jan 2025 On the relevance of Lenin's thought today As Donald Trump returns, it’s also worth returning to Lenin’s analysis of imperialism, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Friday 24th Jan 2025 Venezuela and Black liberation FIONA SIM sees the Venezuelan anti-fascist and anti-imperialist initiatives as offering hope to the rest of the world
Thursday 23rd Jan 2025 Fighting Trump 2.0 demands no-compromise politics Corporate power would have stayed intact whether Trump or Harris won, and the Palestine genocide is endorsed by both ‘sides’ of mainstream politics — what we need instead is real, open leftism, argues ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 23rd Jan 2025 The historical context of Rachel Reeves Britain’s first woman Chancellor delivers the same old fudge, as Labour’s commitment to economic orthodoxy, seen throughout its history, always betrays working people, writes KEITH FLETT
Thursday 23rd Jan 2025 Leonard Peltier: ‘It’s finally over — I’m going home’ The Native American leader and longest-held political prisoner in the US will be released to home confinement after his sentence was commuted in one of Biden’s final acts as president, reports PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
Thursday 23rd Jan 2025 When is a Nazi salute not a nazi salute? When Elon Musk does one JOE GILL hazards a guess: Musk’s salute was a message to all of the world’s far-right legions: now is our time
Wednesday 22nd Jan 2025 Palestine arrests: refuting the nonsense The claims of the police and anti-Palestine lobby that the weekend’s march was somehow a threat to a synagogue are painfully transparent, and there is evidence that the police were itching for a confrontation, explains LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Wednesday 22nd Jan 2025 Eyes Left What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest? ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
Tuesday 21st Jan 2025 Voices of Scotland Stark choices ahead Should Reform gain a toe-hold in Scottish political life, the tectonic plates will have shifted an increment closer to the abyss, writes MIKE COWLEY
Tuesday 21st Jan 2025 Gaza ceasefire at last: how Israel’s ‘first defeat’ will shape the country’s future Unlike previous military campaigns in Gaza, there is no significant strand of Israeli society claiming victory, and a political crisis long-brewing has now reached crisis point, argues RAMZY BAROUD
