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 14th Feb 2025 Helping the economy should not mean bullying the disabled EMMA COTTON explains the significance of a recent win at the High Court for a disability rights campaigner against the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions over a ‘misleading’ and ‘unfair’ consultation on social security cuts
Friday 14th Feb 2025 How can prostitution ever conform with our employment laws and practice? ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
Friday 14th Feb 2025 Starmer a dud? Now they tell us! What’s behind the sudden wave of centrist ‘understanding’ about the real nature of Starmerism and its deep unpopularity? SOLOMON HUGHES reckons he knows the reasons for this apparent epiphany
Friday 14th Feb 2025 Open letter on the marches for Palestine from Jewish Voice for Labour's co-chairs A few thoughts on the dangers of conflating of Jews with Israel and anti-zionism with anti-semitism
Friday 14th Feb 2025 Shaking the foundations of the EU-Nato alliance The EU and Nato are umbilically tied – but what will the new Trump era and a reconfiguration of US interests mean for the war in Ukraine, asks VINCE MILLS
Thursday 13th Feb 2025 ‘A spectacular misuse of public land and public funds’ Furious campaigners claim that Oxford University is colluding with the council to squander £10m of public funds for a new bridge that wrecks a nature reserve, reports BERNY TORRE
Thursday 13th Feb 2025 Voices of Scotland Ferry chaos is a national scandal Locals have been let down by procrastination over the upgrade to Ardrossan Harbour, says KATY CLARK MSP
Thursday 13th Feb 2025 Trump’s USAid crackdown and the new global order As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
Wednesday 12th Feb 2025 The US war against the Palestinians, and the struggle to oppose it ISSAM MAKHOUL, former member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) and currently president of Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), talks to Noah Tucker
Wednesday 12th Feb 2025 We reject Trump’s imperialist agenda Statement from the South African Communist Party
