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 23rd May 2024 A tribunal decision that merits careful study by charities, unions, policy-makers and wider society In light of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre being found to have constructively dismissed a worker who held that service users should be able to know the sex of the staff they were seeing, ANN HENDERSON argues that lessons need to be learned in order to uphold women’s rights
Thursday 23rd May 2024 Ebrahim Raisi: perpetrator of massacres In a statement on the death of the Iranian President, the TUDEH PARTY OF IRAN sheds no tears for a man it viewed as a criminal and a butcher, knee-deep in the blood of political prisoners killed in the massacres of 1988
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 Science and Society Boeing: what happens when money trumps science Industry insiders believe that Boeing, one of the world’s largest aeroplane manufacturers, has jeopardised passenger safety with its corporate strategy, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 A crucial juncture for Mexico With elections coming up next month, the race is on to decide who will be the presidential successor to popular leftwinger Amlo, says TONY BURKE
Wednesday 22nd May 2024 They attack us because we are winning The outrageous minimum service levels legislation has been brought in to break the growing momentum of our movement — but these attacks won’t work, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Thursday 23rd May 2024 Venezuela’s Chavistas rally as the elections approach While Maduro promises more social progress from wages to housing, the right-wing opposition prepares to cry ‘rigged’ as Washington imposes new oil sanctions, reports FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
Thursday 23rd May 2024 Britain needs a disabled revolution With the Tories scapegoating us and Labour failing to protect our rights, the rich history of disability activism shows disabled people that we must organise among ourselves to defend our place in society, writes CORDELIA PRICE
Tuesday 21st May 2024 An appetite for workers’ power in Wales Calls for public ownership, an industrial strategy driven by the unions and extending devolution to encompass workers’ rights and protect us from Westminster are growing at this week’s conference, writes DAI MORGAN
Tuesday 21st May 2024 Building our movement to address the challenges of AI and failing high streets Last year an estimated 120,000 retail workers lost their jobs and nearly 10,000 shops closed — Usdaw regional secretary MIKE WALKER calls for action to protect workers in the rapidly changing retail sector
Tuesday 21st May 2024 The prison service is in crisis Prisons should be a place for rehabilitation that keep everyone inside them safe — instead, they are little more than crowded warehouses, chronically underfunded and their staff dangerously overworked, writes STEVE GILLAN
