ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
From Covid-19 to a federal, socialist republic of Britain
TOM MORRISON argues we cannot squander this crisis — let’s not limit our horizons and break with Westminster and Holyrood for good
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
PRIME MINISTER Boris Johnson is currently visiting Scotland, hoping to show the strength of the union.
His government’s woeful handling of the coronavirus crisis and the comparably better handling of the crisis by the devolved administrations would suggest otherwise.
While we may reserve criticism for the Scottish government’s initial tailgating of Johnson’s dithering approach to this crisis, moving wildly from the initial disastrous “herd immunity” strategy to the supposed following of more conventional science, it takes a certain breed of fool to think that the overseeing of thousands of needless deaths conjures up images of anything approaching strength.
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