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
Friday 26th Apr 2024 The truth behind Labour’s plans to ‘renationalise’ rail One thing about an incoming Labour government looks great: taking the railways into public ownership. But we won’t actually own the trains, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 26th Apr 2024 After the revolution: the new Portugal takes shape Covering the revolt for East German television 50 years ago, JOHN GREEN witnessed first-hand how the revolution blossomed and withered, as anti-worker and reformist forces aligned to keep the Communist Party from power
Thursday 25th Apr 2024 Fifty years since the Carnation Revolution In part one of two articles, JOHN GREEN recounts his experience covering the fall of Portugal’s 41-year-old dictatorship in 24 hours, a remarkable moment of unity and hope, as the masses embraced freedom
Thursday 25th Apr 2024 Britain’s housing crisis: profit over people in high relief It is painful to observe that neither party intends to end the hellscape of astronomical house prices, rip-off rents and homelessness when the post-war housing programme has all the answers we need, writes NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 25th Apr 2024 Opinion Democracy at a crossroads in India ARKA BHADURI surveys the ongoing election's political panorama
Friday 26th Apr 2024 Once again Brighton fights local weapons factory Inheriting the legacy of the long-running Smash EDO campaign, JOHN LILBURNE reports on the campaign set up to stop the notorious factory on the edge of Brighton that supplies the US, Britain and Israel with bomb components
Wednesday 24th Apr 2024 Strike ‘tipping point’ for NHS ambulance workers pushing for the Agenda for Change A four-day strike by NHS patient transport workers represents a sticking point over their growing anger at not being on the same pay system as their colleagues, BERNY TORRE reports
Wednesday 24th Apr 2024 Science and Society The colour of catastrophe Coral reefs are currently undergoing the most extensive planet-wide bleaching on record, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Wednesday 24th Apr 2024 How religious fanatics became the new face of Israel RAMZY BAROUD traces the roots of today’s extremists who are now setting up private militias in Israel back to the murderous Kahanist movement — and warns they are playing the long game when it comes to political power
Tuesday 23rd Apr 2024 Angela Rayner: the art of the Tory hit-job – 100 years and still going strong STEPHEN ARNELL casts an eye at pre-election dirty tricks campaigns
