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 22nd Feb 2025 Caught in a trap VINCE MILLS looks at how UK Labour’s backpedalling on policy has left Scottish Labour with nothing to offer its own electorate
Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 From Govanhill to Gaza – extending the hand of solidarity KIERAN COLES explains what actions young communists have been taking to raise funds and support for the Palestinian people
Saturday 22nd Feb 2025 Now or never moment for Scottish Labour The Scottish Labour conference this weekend will be the last call to save the party from electoral ignominy in 2026, argues CRAIG ANDERSON
Friday 21st Feb 2025 The end of the old era – and into a new, more dangerous, world The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Friday 21st Feb 2025 Codir joins calls for the release of incarcerated opposition leaders in Iran Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
Friday 21st Feb 2025 German warmongers stand fully exposed VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
Friday 21st Feb 2025 Labour's attacks on refugees are shameful This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
Friday 21st Feb 2025 History unearthed: what if Trump succeeded in ethnically cleansing Gaza? One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Friday 21st Feb 2025 More than meets the eye with the New Schools Network SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Thursday 20th Feb 2025 A master teacher remembered ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
