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
Monday 19th Aug 2024 One fought, but the other wouldn’t. Both went to jail Conscientious objectors and former fighters forge a joint path to peace for Israelis and Palestinians, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Monday 19th Aug 2024 Opinion The problem is fascism Successive governments have nurtured far-right sentiment through policies targeting minorities and protesters, while diverting attention from capitalism’s failures, meeting nine of Umberto Eco’s 14 points of fascism, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Friday 16th Aug 2024 They came for us and soon they will come for you: an open letter to the British left My five-year sentence shows growing state repression is mounting as the climate crisis and capitalism destroy our means of existence. We need urgently unity between the environmental and socialist movements, writes ROGER HALLAM, of Just Stop Oil
Friday 16th Aug 2024 Aw That Beyond the shouting: building lasting solidarity against the far right Pushing back fascists requires more than weekend protests, argues MATT KERR, as he recounts lessons from a year-long campaign to defend refugees in Erskine and calls for sustained community engagement
Friday 16th Aug 2024 Gardening Taste of the wild MAT COWARD recommends growing Alpine strawberries, which have a stronger flavour than their larger cousins, but which are happily unappealing to slugs and birds
Friday 16th Aug 2024 How can we keep up this anti-fascist momentum? Mass protests may have put fascists on the back foot for now, but Nigel Farage and Reform UK are fanning the flames of a dangerous new racist offensive, warns WEYMAN BENNETT, announcing Stand Up to Racism’s new campaign
Friday 16th Aug 2024 Compassion or cost-cutting? The slippery slope of assisted dying Labour must fight to ensure any new laws do not become tools for social cleansing of the poor and disabled, argues JOHN McINALLY, as some begin considering NHS savings that could come at the cost of working-class lives
Friday 16th Aug 2024 Bangladesh’s ‘banker to the poor’ takes the helm In the second article of three on the uprising, MOSHFIQUR NOOR explores whether Muhammed Yunus’s blend of NGO-led development and ‘third way’ style vagueries can satisfy a nation hungry for real change
Friday 16th Aug 2024 Every place in Gaza – including schools – is a target The massacre at al-Taba’een is the 21st attack on a school that has been serving as a shelter since July 4, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Friday 16th Aug 2024 Hydrogen hype is another fake ‘green’ corporate scheme The sad thing about the fibs being told about ‘green’ hydrogen heating our homes is that there are indeed green, energy-conserving avenues we could explore, but these diversions only obscure them, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
