State machinery was widely employed to secure favourable outcomes in India’s recent regional elections against three progressive regional governments who dared to challenge Narendra Modi, asserts VIJAY PRASHAD
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Is a 21st-century national government of class collaboration taking shape?
by NICK WRIGHT
Builders in south London make their views clear
It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS
ROGER McKENZIE says the ANC needs to respect South Africa’s Communists and their decision to stand independently at elections
KENNY MacASKILL remembers the woman who first translated The Communist Manifesto into English
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
THERESA MAY entered the referendum campaign totally committed to Britain remaining in the European Union.
She was then and is now a politician who puts the corporate interests of big business, into whose top ranks she is wedded, above the desires and needs of working people.
Big business, the banks, almost all of the City — save a minority of hedge fund speculators — the top Civil Service, military, intelligence and Foreign Office bigwigs, the liberal press and broadcast media have bent their backs to find a way to subvert the most decisive vote of the British people since Labour won the post-war election.
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