ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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Caught in a trap
VINCE MILLS looks at how UK Labour’s backpedalling on policy has left Scottish Labour with nothing to offer its own electorate
POURING FROM AN EMPTY CUP: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar at The University of Glasgow calling for a new political direction in Scotland
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
IT MUST have felt like a nightmare for Anas Sarwar last Sunday morning. The very week that the Scottish Labour Party is to meet and in effect launch its bid for power in the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections, the Sunday Times published a Norstat poll that would give Scottish Labour its worst result in the forthcoming elections since the inception of the Scottish parliament in 1999.
According to the poll, only 18 per cent of the Scottish electorate said they would vote for Labour, giving them 18 seats, four fewer than they currently have.
By contrast the SNP would win 55 seats, and the Greens 10, giving a narrow pro-independence majority of one. The good news is the Tories would lose 13 of their 31 MSPs, giving them, like Labour, 18 seats.
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