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 18th Oct 2024 Labour’s strategic defence review: nothing to do with defence or security RMT president ALEX GORDON exposes the government's bellicose foreign policy
Thursday 17th Oct 2024 Workers in Peru fight back against criminal gangs Last week, thousands of lorry drivers and small business owners took to the streets of several cities in Peru to protest against the high level of deadly organised crime that targets the working class, reports PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
Thursday 17th Oct 2024 Alex Salmond: a transformative but limited political legacy JOHN FOSTER examines how the late SNP leader shifted the party leftwards and upwards, bringing Scottish independence to the forefront while fundamentally failing to address deeper issues of class and corporate capture
Thursday 17th Oct 2024 Making Black History Month meaningful again ROGER McKENZIE argues that Black History Month has been sanitised, losing its original purpose of empowering black people through knowledge of their history and struggles to actually go out and fight the battles of today
Thursday 17th Oct 2024 Peace must top strategic priorities in the Middle East STEVE BISHOP argues that the US failure to restrain Israel is pushing the region towards wider war, with an attack on Iran likely to have devastating consequences
Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 CND conference charts the path for a new peace movement ROGER McKENZIE reports on how peace activists in Britain are uniting diverse struggles against war, climate change and racism to build a powerful force for global justice in an era of deepening conflict
Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 Eyes Left Things going badly for Starmer is our opportunity The sidelining of social democrats and embrace of deregulation comes at the same time as a remarkable collapse in public support for the current Labour regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY, so why don’t we go on the offensive?
Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 ‘Text me you haven’t died’ — My sister was the 166th doctor to be murdered in Gaza Dr Soma Baroud’s life and death embody the tragedy facing the people of Gaza, writes her brother RAMZY BAROUD, sharing her last words of resilience and love in the face of unimaginable loss
Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 Labour victories in 1964 and 1974: did things get better? KEITH FLETT reflects on the 1964 and 1974 election victories, arguing that despite years in power, Labour failed to fundamentally reshape society in the way Thatcher later would — a pattern Blair and now Starmer would follow
Monday 14th Oct 2024 Voices of Scotland Shaking the Labour Party Under Starmer and Sarwar, both the UK and Scottish Labour Parties are committed to the dogmas of neoliberalism – although signs are that resistance is growing, argues VINCE MILLS
