In the recent federal elections the far-right AfD was able to reach sections of the working class on issues over which the left is divided and unable to articulate a coherent position, a situation that is replicated in a number of other European countries, argues NICK WRIGHT
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An error occurred while searching, try again later.Together we must turn the tide against the far-right menace
JULIE SHERRY looks ahead to this weekend’s Stand Up to Racism and trade unions conference that will play a vital part in developing the urgent anti-fascist fightback
Above-inflation rent increases will push council tenants deeper into poverty while failing to address the housing crisis — and it won’t really raise any money, as council rent arrears are doubling across the country, argues MARTIN WICKS
Linda Pentz Gunter talks to Anglo-Palestinian author GHADA KARMI Ghada Karmi about why she still believes a one-state solution remains the only acceptable outcome if Palestinians and Israelis are to live in peace
It’s sunny times for the solar industry which is expected to continue to grow rapidly — but there are still major environmental issues with how solar cells are made, explain ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
After years of struggle in the MAS party, the mass movement of left-wing peasants and workers has founded a new party, with former president Evo Morales as its candidate for the summer’s elections, writes CINDY FORSTER
Sixty years after his murder, it is up to all of us to defy ruling-class attempts to sanitise or distort his revolutionary legacy by upholding his deep understanding of capitalism’s ties to racism and empire, writes ISAAC SANEY
As we face savage cuts to our pay and conditions while the executive gravy train chugs on, Unite is putting the Scottish government on notice as workers prepare for a massive wave of resistance, writes DEREK THOMSON
2025 has hit us like a juggernaut. From Donald Trump’s inauguration, Elon Musk’s Nazi salute livestreamed to the world just days before Holocaust Memorial Day when we pledge “never again” and remember the millions murdered by the Nazis, to the AfD, a fascist-led party, winning 21 per cent of vote in Germany just weeks later, we find ourselves in a new phase of the growing threat of the far right internationally.
This year’s annual Stand Up to Racism and TUC-backed trade union conference on Saturday March 1, “Countering the Rise of the Far Right”, is far from a run-of-the-mill event. Instead, 2025’s event is an emergency conference to come together across unions, sectors and workplaces and urgently discuss building strong and active anti-racism and anti-fascism rooted in the organised working class.
The conference will hear from general secretaries and national speakers from nine trade unions and the TUC, alongside trade union and anti-fascist speakers from Germany, journalist and historian Taj Ali, film-maker Felipe Bustos Sierra, who directed Nae Pasaran and will be showing a preview of his current project, Everybody to Kenmure Street, which explores the mass action in May 2021 that stopped a deportation in Glasgow.
