As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
The East is Red: campaigning with the Communist Party in eastern England
PHIL KATZ, all-Britain election co-ordinator of the Communist Party, describes a campaign that is taking socialism to the heart of rural communities in the East of England
OUT AND ABOUT: Darren Turner leafletting in Stowmarket during the Communist Party Red Weekend on Saturday
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
BETWEEN now and July 2 nearly 200,000 homes in three constituencies in the East of England will receive a communist manifesto.
Thousands more have been distributed at high streets, in colleges, town centres, at hustings meetings, train stations and solidarity meetings and marches for the people of Palestine.
There would have been a fourth challenge in Herts but the candidate was threatened with the sack by their employer and had to pull back … but that episode isn’t over yet!
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