Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Scotland roped into monarchy mania
What exactly the point of pointing out the late Queen's fondness for her lavish estates north of the border is, is unclear — but already the wave of industrial militancy we were experiencing has been significantly interrupted, reports HAILEY MAXWELL
SPECTACLE: Thousands line the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, September 12, to catch a glimpse of Elizabeth II’s coffin
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
OVER the course of the last 10 days, a particularly meaninglessness string of words uttered by the commentator Jonathan Sacerdoti have been transformed, through seemingly endless repetition, into something of an incantation.
“She was Queen of Scots as well and it is notable that she died in Scotland, mostly because she loved Scotland and she loved to be in Balmoral, which was like a private place for her,” he opined.
“She took her summers there, many happy family occasions took place there and actually, the royal family has quite a strong connection to Scotland.”
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