Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
In the Labour Party we must end the retreat from political principle and class politics
We need to create a proper industrial strategy by making – and winning – the argument that society needs a transfer from those who own the wealth to those who create it, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
A COUPLE of months into the pandemic there appeared to be a whole new mood transferring from the people to Parliament.
I tried to capture it in a speech to the Holyrood chamber in May 2020 where I spoke of a “popular mood for change.”
It was a strong conviction that there could be no going back to the way things were. No return to homelessness and rough sleeping and no return to the unequal society and the imbalanced economy.
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The super-rich falsely claim inheritance tax changes will devastate small farmers, while millionaire landowners continue enjoying numerous tax advantages — why is the SNP supporting this nonsense, asks RICHARD LEONARD
The 500 refinery jobs under threat at Grangemouth and underfunding in further education should be at the top of a new Scottish leader’s to-do list, argues RICHARD LEONARD MSP
RICHARD LEONARD MSP looks at the life and ideals of the famous miners' leader and all-round champion of working-class politics
