Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
Time for the unemployment fightback
ANDY BAIN explains how Britain’s communists have helped the movement prepare for the struggle ahead
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
IN THE middle of 2020 — its centenary year — the Communist Party was adapting its tactics and creating new arenas for analysis and discussion as the country alternated between partial and full lockdown.
In the months following the declaration of a pandemic, it became clear that the pre-existing capitalist crisis was about to get much worse.
As some of the biggest names names on the high street collapsed it became clear that Britain would face a wave of unemployment not seen for more than a generation. 2021 would also be another centenary, that of the communist-inspired and led National Unemployed Workers Movement, with the lessons and legacy the NUWM brought with it.
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