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 08th Feb 2025 Palestine under attack The situation for the peoples of the Middle East is dire – the time has come to build an international coalition to isolate the warmongers for as long as they continue their violent campaign, argues AQEL TAQAZ
Saturday 08th Feb 2025 Interview ‘Our focus is peace’ Ben Chacko talks to Bundestag member for the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, SEVIM DAGDELEN, about the continuing war in Ukraine, the economic crisis, controversies over immigration, the failings of Germany’s liberalised prostitution policy, and the importance of free speech
Saturday 08th Feb 2025 Mexico yet again gets Trump to negotiate By taking a firm stance against the ‘Monroe Doctrine Mk II’ President Sheinbaum has won plaudits from across Mexican society, says DAVID RABY
Saturday 08th Feb 2025 Following Reform UK’s politics can only lead Labour to disaster You only have to look at the dire polling of Labour’s sister parties in Europe to see that aping the hard right on migration leads to spectacularly bad results, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Saturday 08th Feb 2025 Socialism or barbarism - a statement of fact Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Friday 07th Feb 2025 Chinese solidarity in Panama’s long struggle for sovereignty against US imperialism The Trump administration increases its interventionist rhetoric and actions regarding the Panama Canal, as China upholds its longstanding support of Panamanian sovereignty, writes TINGS CHAK
Friday 07th Feb 2025 Labour’s Britain is at war with Palestine Starmer is going to go down in Labour history as as much a warmonger as Tony Blair – and the issue will prove his nemesis, says HUGH LANNING
Friday 07th Feb 2025 A grim foreshadowing of Britain today? David Lynch’s classic 1980 film The Elephant Man has some cruel parallels with Britain in 2025, argues STEPHEN ARNELL
Friday 07th Feb 2025 They come with prices and vices – Starmer and the Swiftie Spads They’re the problem it’s them: SOLOMON HUGHES on the freeloading flunkies of the Labour Party hoovering up VIP tickets to musical and sporting events
Friday 07th Feb 2025 ‘A viper’s nest of imperialists’ USAid, which Trump and Musk are moving to abolish, may provide essential aid. But it is also a front for meddling in foreign sovereignty, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
