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 Apr 2025 Ecuador’s Trumpian Turn Lee Brown explains how Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa
Thursday 17th Apr 2025 In Britain’s schools, we are fighting and we are winning We face austerity from the government, privatisation via academies, a toxic influence on our students online, the attacks of the populist right in Trump and Farage — but we are growing, in number, in militancy — and we have shown we cannot be beaten, says NEU general secretary DANIEL KEBEDE
Friday 18th Apr 2025 USAid cuts expose meddling in Cuba Although Musk’s cuts left a massive funding hole for reactionary projects ranging from subversive TV stations to hip-hop music, NATASHA HICKMAN warns that the money tap to anti-Cuban agitators will never be shut off under Trump
Friday 18th Apr 2025 Violent and harmful: legally tackling online pornography Mountains of research show that online hardcore material harms children by direct exposure and often indirectly - by those men porn inspires. Yet there are still no simple measures like age and content regulation in place, writes JOHN GREEN
Friday 18th Apr 2025 Yes to workers’ rights, no to the far right: join the May Day march MARY ADOSSIDES of the London May Day Organising Committee calls on all to join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
Friday 18th Apr 2025 Resistance to Trump's deportation frenzy gets organised Unions, Black Lives Matter, migrant and student groups gathered in Los Angeles to build a ‘united resistance’ to the massive wave of deportations brought in under the Trump regime, reports MATTHEW HUNTER
Thursday 17th Apr 2025 What is Trump really planning with his import tariffs? In a revealing speech, Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy behind the tariff policy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US world hegemony, reports MARC VANDEPITTE
Friday 18th Apr 2025 Black women: a quiet revolution in our unions From the TUC Race Relations Committee to national union treasurers, a new generation of formidable black women leaders are breaking barriers and transforming the movement through uncompromising politics, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 17th Apr 2025 The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Wednesday 16th Apr 2025 The Mahmoud Khalil hearing: how free speech became a deportable offence in Trump's America Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
