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 18th Apr 2024 Our social security system needs to be radically reformed Instead of raising universal credit and funding its administration, the government has chosen once again to make things worse for the most vulnerable — it’s time to fight back, writes MARTIN CAVANAGH
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 The tragedy of a toothless UN What is so galling about this body that has the potential to deliver global justice on a fairly egalitarian basis, is that it generally identifies what should be done — then cannot do it because the US is all-powerful, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Wednesday 17th Apr 2024 STUC Congress 2024 Labour MSPs hail 'landmark' congress After Congress backed action issues from austerity to a just transition, and defeating resurgent fascist networks, West of Scotland MSP KATY CLARK and her South of Scotland colleague CAROL MOCHAN offered their takes on the 127th Scottish Trades Union Congress in Dundee
Wednesday 17th Apr 2024 Eyes Left Signs point to world war: what next? The rising price of gold is a good indicator that, despite the protestations of Western leaders, we are heading towards a bigger, wider war. Closing our eyes and focusing on domestic issues is not an option, warns ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 17th Apr 2024 The double standards of the West are on full display at the ICJ SEVIM DAGDELEN writes that the response of Germany to Nicaragua’s charges of aiding and abetting genocide in Gaza has been to downplay its role in supplying arms and question the premise that genocide is already taking place
Tuesday 16th Apr 2024 Opinion Labour’s right turn won’t win in Scotland After Keir Starmer has made his politics plain for all to see, CHRIS STEPHENS MP argues that the SNP is now the more progressive party on the NHS, geopolitics, nuclear weapons and workers’ rights
Tuesday 16th Apr 2024 STUC Congress 2024 Care workers need action now Despite several inquiries and reviews, conditions for social care workers in Scotland are stagnating instead of improving — we need state intervention to deliver the long overdue improvements, writes LILIAN MACER
Tuesday 16th Apr 2024 Voices of Scotland Canary in the coalmine: trade unions need to wake up to women’s rights Research is confirming the massive rise in anti-women politics across the world, writes HAILEY MAXWELL, and if our unions are to fight back, they will need a radical reformation of their institutional culture
Tuesday 16th Apr 2024 The problem with assisted dying As the debate around voluntary euthanasia returns, we now have some seriously disturbing evidence from those places where it has become recently legalised to convince us that Britain is not ready, argues BEN LUNN
Monday 15th Apr 2024 ‘This is a community that suffers a lot of hate and lives in poverty’ Andrew Murray catches up with Leicester East MP CLAUDIA WEBBE, who will be standing as an independent in a city stricken by rapacious fashion-brand employers, sectarian frictions and urban decay – a city where principled socialism is more valuable than ever
