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
Tuesday 01st Oct 2024 The thorny legacy of the Scotland Office Unwanted, imposed Tory interventions on Scotland fuelled demands for devolution, and today Labour risks repeating past mistakes if Ian Murray seeks to bypass Holyrood on spending, warns PAULINE BRYAN
Tuesday 01st Oct 2024 British communist solidarity with China from the revolution to today As the People's Republic turns 75, ROBERT GRIFFITHS details how British communists championed Chinese sovereignty against imperialism, weathering the political storms of the Sino-Soviet split and collapse of the USSR to rebuild relations for the modern era
Monday 30th Sep 2024 Assessing Chinese socialism 75 years after its revolution ANDREW MURRAY reflects on the achievements and character of socialism with Chinese characteristics
Monday 30th Sep 2024 ‘A beacon of hope’ – 75 years of socialist China BEN CHACKO reports from a day-long event to commemorate the achievements of the People’s Republic of China, from combating poverty to striving for a more peaceful world
Monday 30th Sep 2024 The Battle of Holbeck Moor – the little-known precursor to Cable Street The mobilisation in 1936 of 30,000 anti-fascists to drive Sir Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts out of Leeds has been commemorated in the city, reports PETER LAZENBY
Monday 30th Sep 2024 History Clause one of the Labour Party constitution dates from 1918. Here’s why it still matters The words composed by Sidney Webb: ‘To organise and maintain in Parliament and in the country a Political Labour Party’ were a crucial landmark in Labour’s journey to becoming a membership-based electoral presence, writes KEITH FLETT
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 Asylum-seekers enlisted to kill Palestinians in Gaza RAMZY BAROUD details the brazen scheme to recruit African asylum-seekers to fight in the IDF, a desperate measure that lays bare Israel’s deep systemic racism — and mounting recruitment crisis
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 Holst: the socialist composer and his (accidental) patriotic smash hit MAT COWARD unearths Gustav Holst’s radical roots, from meetings at William Morris’s house to pamphlet-printing and agitation with the Red Vicar of Thaxted — and laments that he is remembered today for the entirely wrong reason
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 Peace News: a huge, irrevocable loss for the British peace movement IAN SINCLAIR mourns the end of the longstanding activist newspaper that proudly stood ‘For Revolutionary Nonviolence’
Saturday 28th Sep 2024 Remembering Dave Wetzel (1942-2024) A champion of public transport and land value taxation, whose legacy lives on
