MAISE RILEY reports on her recent visit to China with a delegation of young communists from Europe and North America to see China’s people-led development

PAUL O’BRIEN of Labour Movement for Irish Unity looks at the Makerfield MP’s record when it comes to the north of Ireland

Bolivia’s protests are a response to Rodrigo Paz’s attempt to privatise core sectors of the economy and unravel two decades of socialist progress, say WIPHALAS ACROSS THE WORLD

GEOFF BOTTOMS says improving palliative care needs to move up the political agenda — and the risks to vulnerable and socially disadvantaged groups posed by legal assisted suicide make this more urgent

The former Ofcom chair increasingly echoed the arguments of the broadcasters he was meant to regulate, says STEPHEN ARNELL

TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh

NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact

ROGER McKENZIE takes a look at the Western military footprint in Africa — and the abundance of critical resources that motivates it

Repealing Britain’s most dangerous Bill must be the first act of whoever replaces Keir Starmer, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation

The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism