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‘The most fundamental issues for working people are being left by the wayside’
Communist candidate for the Scottish Parliament elections JOHNNIE HUNTER tells Niall Christie why the party’s focus is on recovery from coronavirus rather than constitutional upheaval
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
A COMMON attribution to Scotland is that as a country, it is generally more left-wing than its neighbours south of the border — the one-time dominance of the Labour Party often held up as an example of this.
In recent years, this grip on Scotland has significantly loosened as the SNP shifted to become the dominant force while other left-wing parties have peaked and troughed in their popularity since the reopening of the Scottish Parliament.
Why, then, has it taken 22 years for a widespread and co-ordinated campaign of communists to run for Holyrood?
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Our charter’s demands for fair pay, affordable housing and environmental security will recruit working-class youth into the political struggle for socialism, emulating the success of the Women’s Charter, writes YCL general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS
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