Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
As Starmer seeks his ‘Falklands moment’ while planning £6 billion in welfare cuts, a historical pattern repeats itself — natural resources weaponised against the working class rather than used for their benefit, writes MATT KERR
Labour has announced it will spend billions on war instead of dedicating resources to saving children from poverty — they seem determined to drive those of us cursed with compassion to (assisted) suicide, writes MATT KERR
Mismanagement, privatisation and EU rules have strangled vital ferry services, leaving Scotland’s island communities stranded and the once-bustling ports of my youth in what feels like terminal decline, laments MATT KERR
Through hospital windows and news bulletins, personal loss opens a window onto the world’s wider suffering as the season, and the year itself, reminds us all why class solidarity matters now more than ever, writes MATT KERR
While farmers win support against inheritance tax changes, refinery workers seeking to save their jobs and community face deafening silence from Holyrood, writes MATT KERR
MATT KERR ponders the dichotomy of poorly paid Leonardo UK workers unable to stop the production of weaponry employed to kill Gaza's workers and their children
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