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
Tuesday 25th Feb 2025 Voices of Scotland Time to make politicians pay for attacks on our services As we face savage cuts to our pay and conditions while the executive gravy train chugs on, Unite is putting the Scottish government on notice as workers prepare for a massive wave of resistance, writes DEREK THOMSON
Tuesday 25th Feb 2025 Spending billions to make disabled people suffer Labour is deliberately continuing Tory policies that cost us £38 billion more than they save while driving illness rates higher — despite the evidence that previous sanctions doubled suicide attempts, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Tuesday 25th Feb 2025 Opinion Whither proletarian revolution – it’s coming home Lenin’s theory of the weakest link shifted the centre of gravity of the proletarian revolution towards peoples’ struggles in the developing world, contrary to the expectation of Marx and Engels. The effect was to hinder the cause of socialism by decades. Time bring it back to its natural home, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
Monday 24th Feb 2025 The roots of neofascism in East Germany The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neofascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today, writes JACOB YASKO
Monday 24th Feb 2025 Lula and Trump are on a collision course The towering figures of the North American right and the South American left are set to clash this summer as Brazil hosts Brics, an alliance Trump is determined to smash, reports TONY BURKE
Monday 24th Feb 2025 Munich terror: why the workers were marching DAVID CONWAY explains the crisis in the German childcare sector that had driven workers to the streets — a cause that is not being reported alongside the deadly ramming attack on their march
Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 Labour should be preparing for peace, not more war Dangerous and delusional military posturing on the world stage does not serve the interests of the public among the European powers, nor the people of Ukraine, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 Labour's austerity is an economic blind alley In his first of a new monthly economics column MICHAEL BURKE argues that public-sector investment is more effective, more productive than private-sector investment
Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 Remembering Claudia Jones – a paragon of communist activism DAVID HORSLEY points to the continued relevance of an inspirational black communist whose 110th birthday anniversary will be celebrated on Sunday
Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 ‘Build it, and they’ll come’ – the case for investment in rail Aslef general secretary MICK WHELAN speaks to Ben Chacko about rail renationalisation, the Employment Rights Bill and why we shouldn’t write off this Labour government
