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
Monday 13th Jan 2025 We can save legal aid by saving on pointless costs Removing unnecessary bureaucracy and other avoidable costs could save up to a quarter-billion, giving us painless solutions to protect legal aid, writes PROFESSOR ANSELM ELDERGILL
Friday 10th Jan 2025 Union challenges Amazon's ruthless exploitation of its workforce The largest to-date strikes organised by the Teamsters union rattled Amazon facilities across the US before Christmas
Friday 10th Jan 2025 Nato cranks up confrontation with Russia The irrational hatred towards Russia within Western elites and their subsequent actions put the people of the EU in mortal danger, writes RAINER RUPP
Friday 10th Jan 2025 The South African billionaires fomenting a global race war From their apartheid-era childhoods to Trump’s inner circle, billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel bring a colonial ‘divide and rule’ mindset to the global far-right project, where the masses turn on each other, writes JOE GILL
Sunday 12th Jan 2025 People power kills east London’s giant glowing bauble IAN SINCLAIR tells the story of a small group of east London activists who took on and defeated a billion-dollar US corporation that wanted to build a giant sphere venue coated in gaudy LED lights
Thursday 09th Jan 2025 Canadian chaos is an opportunity DAVE McKEE argues that Canadian unions should immediately organise to set the agenda before the next election, as monopoly capital is now rallying to the Conservative Party after Justin Trudeau’s political demise
Thursday 09th Jan 2025 Banks need more regulation, not less Labour’s ex-banker Chancellor plans deregulation while City profits soar and customers suffer — between money laundering scandals and the exploitation of Covid loans, it’s clearly time to end this madness, says BERNIE EVANS
Thursday 09th Jan 2025 Anti-communism v the unions, neo-anarchism v mass movements ZOLTAN ZIGEDY reflects on the lessons from two books looking at the US labour movement and the recent history of spontaneous mass uprisings – and finds two pernicious ideologies working against the interests of the people
Thursday 09th Jan 2025 The ‘Bandung spirit’ lives on in the new multipolar world China’s huge growth and trade success have driven the expansion of the Brics alliance — now is a good time for the global South to rediscover 1955’s historic Bandung conference, and learn its lessons, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Wednesday 08th Jan 2025 Phil Davies: a life spent fighting for justice From defending Remploy workers to fighting for furniture fire safety, Phil Davies showed lifelong dedication to working people’s rights — while never forgetting international solidarity, writes LES WOODWARD
