The old is dying GAWAIN LITTLE argues that the prolonged economic crisis we have been experiencing presents opportunities for a working-class fightback
Features | Wednesday 01st Jan 2025 In 2025, we must confront a dystopian right fighting for unchecked corporate power
Wednesday 01st Jan 2025 New Year’s Honours – who said ‘No, thanks’? MAT COWARD offers a roll call of refuseniks – some for political reasons, others for quirky reasons of their own
Thursday 02nd Jan 2025 The urgency of the struggle for peace in Sudan Unity among progressive and democratic forces is vital if the war-torn nation is to emerge from the years of conflict that erupted after the still-incomplete revolution of 2018, argues RASHID ELSHEIKH
Tuesday 31st Dec 2024 BBC staff in open revolt over Gaza Britain’s state broadcaster is facing major internal discontent about its reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict. Journalists are claiming it is systematically biased and frames events in a misleading way, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Tuesday 31st Dec 2024 VOICES OF SCOTLAND The end of the year – and a time to reflect With new faces being elected to both to government and to my union, PCS, 2024 has been a year of change – with new challenges ahead for 2025, writes LYNN HENDERSON
Monday 30th Dec 2024 The Watling Estate: 100 years of a working-class housing experiment Former resident LEO WOODLAND looks at the first century of a visionary project that saw almost 4,000 homes built in a vast pastoral setting in the suburbs, home first to exiles from central London’s slums to waves of migrants today
Monday 30th Dec 2024 A Guid New Year to Ane An A? Only if we fight for it As polls show Scottish Labour’s support crumbling and Reform rising even among independence supporters, an urgent need emerges for an alternative based on public investment paid for by radical progressive taxation, argues VINCE MILLS
Monday 30th Dec 2024 Crucial Communist Teaching Act ushers in a new McCarthy era Congress is pushing absurd anti-communist propaganda into schools as young Americans increasingly reject capitalism — and this is an attempt to lay the ground for attacks on socialist nations and US unions too, warns JOHN WOJCIK
Saturday 28th Dec 2024 Our squalid jails are a national scandal With privatisation badly failing prisoners and staff, MARK FAIRHURST insists Labour must stick to its insourcing pledge and bring prison maintenance back in-house
Saturday 28th Dec 2024 How poverty itself shaped A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens was facing a return to the destitution that had blighted his childhood, and it was this which drove him to write the remarkable best-seller which changed the politics of Christmas forever, writes MAT COWARD
Saturday 28th Dec 2024 Is it a Fair Cop? The cynical lack of clarity over Cop29’s financial arrangements suggests that the bill will be footed by poor countries, writes TOM HARDY
