SOLOMON HUGHES says even electoral defeat isn’t a deterrent to right-wing MPs: pro-corporate policies might lose elections but they can be lucrative nonetheless
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Mobilising against council cuts in Scotland
With local authorities and services in a dire state, what should be the strategy of the left? DREW GILCHRIST argues that building support for no-cuts budgets can be a powerful way of defending our communities
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking during the party's General Election manifesto launch at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, June 18, 2024
Schools are at breaking point, argues NASUWT general secretary MATT WRACK — we urgently need investment in our kids’ futures
MIKE SCOTT assesses the AI threat to jobs in the first of a pair of articles on the problems it poses
Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
THE general election campaigns so far have been a mix of lacklustre manifestos from the main political parties — all failing to address the causes of worsening conditions in housing, healthcare and job opportunities.
Along with the constant drive to international war, we have fascistic rhetoric from the far right that denies any legitimate criticism of capitalism and the ruling class — instead turning it on the most vulnerable in our society, refugees.
However, the election does give a platform to progressive forces within the trade union and workers’ movements to highlight the systemic crisis felt by the working class in Britain and the growing distrust of Establishment politics.
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