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 08th Nov 2024 US imperialism will get worse under Trump In a statement, LIBERATION sounds the alarm on the returning president, whose agenda on Cuba, Iran and, above all, rabid support for Israel’s radical right are a huge concern
Friday 08th Nov 2024 Asbestos deaths in schools will grow HANK ROBERTS warns that new research predicts a catastrophic rise in asbestos-related deaths among former pupils and teachers as school buildings deteriorate, bursting the ‘it’s safe if not disturbed’ myth
Friday 08th Nov 2024 The shop floor stories British fiction ignores Our homegrown literary scene seems stuck in a bit of a middle-class bubble with a key sector deeply unrepresented in the stories it tells: retail workers. Ireland and the US do much better, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Thursday 07th Nov 2024 Cop16: the world’s largest meeting to save nature has ended with no clear path ahead The biodiversity summit in Colombia showed national governments are struggling to address the complexity of challenges that need to be overcome if we’re to preserve the natural world, writes HARRIET BULKELEY
Thursday 07th Nov 2024 Democracy was not on the ballot: the Democrats made sure of that In sordid tactics that ended up backfiring, Kamala Harris’s ‘nomination’ was the least democratic in history, while the party actively suppressed dissident voices online and its lawyers suppressed third-party candidates from the ballot box, says DENNIS BROE
Thursday 07th Nov 2024 Shifting political conceptions of Israel From Israel’s creation in 1948 to today, views on the nature of the Jewish state have passed through several stages – but what remains constant is the projection of imperial power in the region, which is the barrier to peace and Palestinian self-determination, writes NICK WRIGHT
Wednesday 06th Nov 2024 Israel lashes out: Latin American governments pay for supporting Palestine Progressive Latin American governments face heightened pressure and threats after taking strong stances on Gaza, writes JOHN PERRY, the latest wave of nefarious Israeli interference in the continent
Wednesday 06th Nov 2024 Science and Society The autumnal colour magic of leaf senescence Genetic engineering to remove a structure from plant cells called the Golgi body sheds light on how leaves change with the seasons, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Wednesday 06th Nov 2024 Education under the US blockade ROBERT POOLE reports back from his mission to Cuba delivering aid and learning from Cuban educators
Tuesday 05th Nov 2024 For a worker’s Budget, tax the fat cats In the second of two articles on Labour’s weak Budget, ROBERT GRIFFITHS argues that Britain’s massive private wealth and offshore tax havens show clear potential for radical redistribution through progressive taxation
