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
Saturday 05th Oct 2024 Pushing prisoners onto the streets The government’s quick-fix solution to prison overcrowding is backfiring spectacularly, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
Saturday 05th Oct 2024 Elon Musk v the Swedish working class one year on From the ports to the postal service, Swedish unions are outmanoeuvring Tesla in solidarity with striking mechanics — speaking to Tony Burke, IF Metall’s MARIE NEILSON explains that collective bargaining remains non-negotiable in Sweden
Saturday 05th Oct 2024 ‘Bidenomics’ to austerity 2.0: what should we expect from the Budget? In light of its retreat on green investment, DIANE ABBOTT MP dissects Labour’s economic priorities, questioning whether the promised ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ will materialise amid signs of continued cuts and massive spending on war
Saturday 05th Oct 2024 Unpicking the scandal at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre An independent review has condemned the rape crisis centre for failing to protect women or put survivors first. SUSAN GALLOWAY asks how it came to this
Saturday 05th Oct 2024 Why pensioners will rally at Westminster on Monday against winter fuel cuts National Pensioners Convention general secretary JAN SHORTT says Rachel Reeves must drop her dangerous attack on Britain's pensioners
Friday 04th Oct 2024 West Africa’s Resistance against Imperialism PRABHAT PATNAIK on how the military governments of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso are securing control of their natural resources — a key priority for any truly independent state
Friday 04th Oct 2024 A splash of protest Just Stop Oil activists aren’t out to destroy art, they are here to save us. We should thank them not jail them, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Friday 04th Oct 2024 Cable Street 88 years on: battling fascists then and now DAVID ROSENBERG assesses the far-right threat in the wake of the summer's Islamophobic pogroms and asks what lessons we can learn from the 1930s
Friday 04th Oct 2024 Sixty years after Kubrick's film, meet the US's real Dr Strangelove SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the sorry career of Brett McGurk
Thursday 03rd Oct 2024 Labour posturing: tough choices or easy money? Labour’s refusal to challenge banking profits or tax the rich exposes its painfully hollow rhetoric of ‘tough choices,’ while the trousering of freebies and schmoozing the gambling industry undermines its basic integrity, argues BERNIE EVANS
