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
Thursday 05th Sep 2024 Rachel Reeves channels Philip Snowden: Labour’s 100-year love affair with austerity The Chancellor is rehashing discredited Victorian economics, showing the party has learned nothing from a century of failed Gladstonian economics, ignoring Keynes and betraying workers, writes KEITH FLETT
Thursday 05th Sep 2024 Ben-Gvir’s holy war: how religious extremism is tearing Israel apart RAMZY BAROUD exposes the growing rift between Israel’s religious zealots and its security establishment, as Kahanist ideology and growing settler violence begin to destabilise the delicate balance of the occupation regime
Thursday 05th Sep 2024 How Mexico crushed neoliberalism and the right Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America’s TIM YOUNG looks at Morena’s landslide, where rolling back privatisation, boosting welfare and reclaiming national resources has transformed the country and rallied huge support
Thursday 05th Sep 2024 The journalist as a peacemonger ROGER McKENZIE wishes all reporting from wars carried a clarion call for peace from journalists placing themselves firmly on the side of its victims rather than being stenographers for those who champion war
Wednesday 04th Sep 2024 Wacky vice presidents are a long Republican tradition JD Vance’s bitterly misjudged ‘childless cat ladies’ broadside broke the internet — but lightweight, bizarre or even downright dangerous vice-presidential picks are the norm for Republicans, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Wednesday 04th Sep 2024 Eyes Left Slumlords and surge pricing: Thatcher’s legacy alive and kicking in Starmer’s Labour When there are more landlords in Parliament on the Labour benches than the Tories', whatever happens to her portrait, Thatcher is having the last laugh, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 03rd Sep 2024 On the socially transformative roles of the bicycle and holiday camp MAT COWARD looks at how the bicycle helped spread socialist education and the holiday camp was invented for the benefit of the working class
Tuesday 03rd Sep 2024 Obituary James Lawson: giant of the US civil rights struggle Strategist of non-violent action dies age 95
Tuesday 03rd Sep 2024 The BBC’s elitism problem Auntie’s offices are still packed to the rafters with private school-educated appointees, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Tuesday 03rd Sep 2024 Voices of Scotland Are we a’ Jock Tamson’s bairns? With the far right preparing for a ‘Pro UK rally’ in Glasgow in a few days’ time, we must get ready to mobilise, while also recognising that poverty and disaffection are playing their part in this alarming rightward shift, warns VINCE MILLS
