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 01st Mar 2025 Claudia Jones: a warrior against empire and hate From McCarthy’s prison cells to London’s carnival, Jones fought for peace and unity while exposing the lies of US imperialism, says ROBERT GRIFFITHS, in a graveside oration at Highgate Cemetery given last Sunday
Thursday 27th Feb 2025 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
Thursday 27th Feb 2025 Germany’s crisis of working-class politics In the recent federal elections the far-right AfD was able to reach sections of the working class on issues over which the left is divided and unable to articulate a coherent position, a situation that is replicated in a number of other European countries, argues NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 27th Feb 2025 Rent hikes threaten the institution of council housing Above-inflation rent increases will push council tenants deeper into poverty while failing to address the housing crisis — and it won’t really raise any money, as council rent arrears are doubling across the country, argues MARTIN WICKS
Wednesday 26th Feb 2025 Science and Society Solar sells, but need it cost the earth? It’s sunny times for the solar industry which is expected to continue to grow rapidly — but there are still major environmental issues with how solar cells are made, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Sunday 02nd Mar 2025 Geoffrey Pyke, Britain’s brilliant anti-fascist inventor MAT COWARD looks at the personal ideology of a man as concerned with the psychology of inventing as with inventing itself, whose ideas about education – and contributions to the war effort against the Nazis – live on
Sunday 02nd Mar 2025 Trump resumes his crusade against Cuba After Joe Biden’s cynical last-minute clemency for Cuba, the new administration has quickly returned to maximum subversive tactics. This socialist island needs our support now more than ever, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
Thursday 27th Feb 2025 Opinion An impossible dream? Linda Pentz Gunter talks to Anglo-Palestinian author GHADA KARMI Ghada Karmi about why she still believes a one-state solution remains the only acceptable outcome if Palestinians and Israelis are to live in peace
Tuesday 25th Feb 2025 Bolivia: the poor take the high ground with a new political party After years of struggle in the MAS party, the mass movement of left-wing peasants and workers has founded a new party, with former president Evo Morales as its candidate for the summer’s elections, writes CINDY FORSTER
Tuesday 25th Feb 2025 Malcolm X’s revolutionary truth endures Sixty years after his murder, it is up to all of us to defy ruling-class attempts to sanitise or distort his revolutionary legacy by upholding his deep understanding of capitalism’s ties to racism and empire, writes ISAAC SANEY
