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
Saturday 25th May 2024 Infected blood scandal: government has promised compensation but will justice really be done? It has been a demoralising and frustrating battle for infected blood victims to obtain compensation. ANNE-MAREE FARRELL examines what is on offer for those affected
Sunday 26th May 2024 Aw That Starmer's CHANGE: is a threat, promise, or a command? MATT KERR is troubled by Labour election slogan and the old adage it invokes that ‘the more things change, the more they stay the same’
Saturday 25th May 2024 Israel’s relentless war on the Palestinians With bombing unending in Gaza and settlers rampaging in the West Bank, the ICC’s moves charge Israeli officials, though an important milestone, show no sign of changing the occupation’s genocidal course, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Sunday 26th May 2024 Opinion Biden and the ballot box We’ve learned too late that the love affair between Butcher Bibi and Genocide Joe is an unbreakable bond, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Friday 24th May 2024 Open Letter Racist Rwanda plan and Sunak’s shock detention raids operation breach human rights and must be opposed WE THE undersigned wholeheartedly oppose the so-called Safety of Rwanda Act and the inhumane way it is currently being implemented.
Friday 24th May 2024 Keir Starmer must not help the Tories to pass their Anti-Boycott Bill The Labour leader could use the ‘wash-up’ period in the run-up to the general election to push through anti-democratic legislation to prevent solidarity with Palestine, warns PETER LEARY
Friday 24th May 2024 Empty boasts of money-saving SOLOMON HUGHES examines questions raised about the Crown Commercial Service’s organisation of cross-departmental spending – and finds Labour sadly committed to ‘more of the same’
Friday 24th May 2024 Chile: inertia prevails as the state begins to crumble The former minister of the interior and former president of the Socialist Party GERMAN CORREA speaks with Hugo Guzman about his fears for a rapidly deteriorating Chile plagued by institutional, political and social degradation
Tuesday 28th May 2024 Can Europe reject a trade war detour against China? As Biden ramps up punitive tariffs to protect an ailing corporate supremacy, the EU faces a crucial choice — stay chained to a crumbling US empire, or navigate constructive economic ties with China itself, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Thursday 23rd May 2024 From the belly of the behemoth Following the recent local and mayoral elections, VINCE MILLS wonders whether hopes of an independent left breakthrough are realistic and considers the prospects within the lumbering beast that is the Labour Party
