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
Wednesday 08th Jan 2025 Eyes Left Musk’s provocations shouldn’t be laughed off The trolling of our nation by Twitter’s clown prince points to very real weaknesses in the current regime as it cowers before Trump’s coming reign — it is time for Corbyn-era forces to unite and take on Starmer, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 08th Jan 2025 A lesson from history: Teddy Roosevelt and the robber barons Between Musk’s bizarre British power grab and Trump’s overtly corporate agenda, modern robber barons face a growing backlash — and history shows how determined leaders can tame ultra-rich excess, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
Tuesday 07th Jan 2025 Voices of Scotland The global left must get its act together and fight back It’s easy to lose your sense of optimism amid bleak political times. NEIL FINDLAY has some suggestions for what we need to see in 2025
Tuesday 07th Jan 2025 Ireland embraced the AI boom. Now its data centres are consuming too much of its energy Huge new buildings kitted out with powerful computers consumed 21 per cent of the nation’s electricity last year – leading to increased power demands and increased bills. MATT O’BRIEN reports
Tuesday 07th Jan 2025 The war criminal ‘victim’: Netanyahu’s inevitable fate The Israeli PM has won political favour by repeatedly playing the victim card – but when the war on Gaza ends this kind of manoeuvring will no longer suffice in order to maintain his coalition, says RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 07th Jan 2025 Jimmy Carter told Trump how to put America First, but will he do it? With a struggling economy, the US is facing a hard choice between ‘guns or butter.’ MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICHOLAS JS DAVIES see the signs that the incoming president will opt for the former
Monday 06th Jan 2025 The far right’s dangerous new playbook for 2025 Driven on by novel forms of hard-right populism like Modi and Trump, European neofascists are skillfully rebranding themselves and taking power by copying the left's language — just as they did in the last century, writes JOHN GREEN
Monday 06th Jan 2025 After the failed coup: Korean crisis rumbles on Between military provocations against the DPRK and factional warfare at home, President Yoon’s martial law crisis continues to rock the South Korean state — and the US has to have known it was coming, writes KENNY COYLE
Monday 06th Jan 2025 No direction home: a history of building left politics Every few years, it seems like the ‘right time’ to build a new left party — but what are the right conditions, asks socialist historian KEITH FLETT, looking back at the last two centuries and the insights of Ralph Miliband and EP Thompson
Saturday 04th Jan 2025 Our film seeks to tell the truth about the ‘cost of dying crisis’ Pauper funerals have increased at a dramatic rate, writes DEBORAH HOBSON, asking why is this swept under the carpet by media and politicians alike
