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City of temples hosts the 24th congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)

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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

Easter eggs trump child poverty in Scotland

May Day 2025: #RedForWorkers is back

Nationalisation has been vindicated by reality

Crucial Communist Teaching Act ushers in a new McCarthy era

Congress is pushing absurd anti-communist propaganda into schools as young Americans increasingly reject capitalism — and this is an attempt to lay the ground for attacks on socialist nations and US unions too, warns JOHN WOJCIK

Our squalid jails are a national scandal

With privatisation badly failing prisoners and staff, MARK FAIRHURST insists Labour must stick to its insourcing pledge and bring prison maintenance back in-house

How poverty itself shaped A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens was facing a return to the destitution that had blighted his childhood, and it was this which drove him to write the remarkable best-seller which changed the politics of Christmas forever, writes MAT COWARD

Is it a Fair Cop?

The cynical lack of clarity over Cop29’s financial arrangements suggests that the bill will be footed by poor countries, writes TOM HARDY

China’s Great Green Wall is a vision of hope for the planet

Chinese socialist planning and action over decades have created the world’s greatest reforestation programme, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ, and now its lessons in fighting desertification and climate change are taking root worldwide

No more Rhodesias: renaming Africa

From Zimbabwe’s provinces to Mali’s streets, nations are casting off colonial labels in their quest for true independence and dignity in a revival of the pan-African spirit, writes ROGER McKENZIE

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Britain’s best option after the new president is sworn in in January is to simply opt out of his warmongering and demands for military spending, and make our own trade deals independent of the US for once, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

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…but whether globally or locally, each of us can take steps to achieve peace, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

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TONY COLLINS explains the deliberately obscured reality of what happened when soldiers on the Western Front famously fraternised in a spirit of unity amid horror of the Great War

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