There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Making the transition from anti-austerity campaigning to an anti-monopoly alliance
TAM KIRBY told the recent online meeting of the Scottish Committee of the Communist Party that the crisis we are in shows no sign of slowing and the government's response has more to do with the protection of finance and corporations than saving lives
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
AT some point in the near future, we will be faced with a full-frontal assault on our class. We will see once again mass unemployment as the furlough scheme ends. Already there are attacks on workers’ terms and conditions and this will only expand unless we prepare.
Someone will have to pay for the crisis and slogans like “they’ve failed us” falls far short of what we need to be doing. We need a strategy. We need to move from being just an anti-austerity campaign to an anti-monopoly alliance in concrete terms.
What we are faced with is a class struggle and this goes further than just the Tory versus Labour anti-austerity campaign run since 2013 during which far too much emphasis was placed on Corbyn’s Labour and not enough effort put into building a real mass movement from below.
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We must memorialise more of the important events of the workers' movement with real-world events, writes TAM KIRBY, as a new miners’ gala in Fife takes shape
TAM KIRBY argues we can freeze energy bills and the price of essential goods, restore the universal credit uplift and abandon the National Insurance hike — so long as we can build a coalition to tax the rich
TAM KIRBY laments how the auld are held in contempt because we apparently ‘had it so much better’ – when in fact class struggle has been a battle for every generation
