With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Leaving behind 33 years of false paths for the left
The left’s retreat from class, embrace of ‘hyphenated capitalisms’ and tepid reformism in tropical settings needs to be finally dumped in favour of a bold socialist programme and Leninist party organisation, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
KEITH FLETT looks back 50 years to when the Iron Lady was elected Tory leader…
Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH agues that much as social media are presently guilty of fanning hostilities, the roots of it lie with decades of xenophobic narratives peddled by politicians and the traditional media
ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
Locals have been let down by procrastination over the upgrade to Ardrossan Harbour, says KATY CLARK MSP
WHAT does history tell us about where we are today, well into the first half of the 21st century? It surely tells us that capitalism remains the greatest obstacle to solving the manifold injustices, irrationalities and existential threats that face humanity.
History also teaches us that the false answers of nationalism, racialism and social exclusion remain leading obstacles to overcoming capitalism and the class divide at the centre of capitalist social relations.
Division — the separation of potential allies in the struggle against capitalism — remains a deep infection immobilising those seeking social justice for all, a lesson the advocates of both casually chosen and deeply personal identities seem to have missed.
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