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Black communists, immigration, reparations and anti-racism
The proud history of black and white unity in the Communist Party over the last century has laid the ground to develop the progressive policies we need today, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
ONE VOICE: Stand Up To Racism demo in Glasgow March 2023
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
COMMUNISM in Britain has had many key black activists since the founding of the party in 1920.
Much of this black communist tradition in the party has gone uncelebrated and is only now being rediscovered and revived.
This isn’t just because of a desire to demonstrate some kind of “right on” stance by the party. There is simply no need to do that.
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