While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
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Ending right to buy is a necessary step towards resolving the housing crisis
It’s high time for England to follow Scotland and Wales in ending the privatisation of collectively owned housing. MARTIN WICKS explains why
CRISIS POINT: An estate agent sign outside a block of council flats, south London
The best wildfire service may begin with the community, argues KOMAL RAJ ARYAL
Dignity is important to all humans, argues the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, but it does not come about automatically. In a less than perfect world, dignity can accompany suffering, but the collective dignity of working people is achieved through acting together to change the world.
The US aim to reshape the existing order in the Middle East needs to be resolutely resisted, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
ALMA EGAN suggests four days out that bring the region’s history of protest to life
IN DEFENDING her support for right to buy Lisa Nandy recently said that “telling working class people they can’t own their own home is just unacceptable.”
If she meant their council home, that rather contradicts what she said at last September’s Labour conference: “The idea of a home for life handed on in common ownership to future generations is an idea worth fighting for.”
If a council home is sold to the tenant then it ceases to be “in common ownership.”
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