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First Minister John Swinney addresses delegates during the STUC conference in the Caird Hall, Dundee, April 21, 2026
STUC / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement

Chacko and Peter Mertens
Pensions / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar looks on following his defeat in the Holyrood election at Glasgow International Arena, May 8, 2026
Voices of Scotland / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS

South Africans protest against illegal migration, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 29, 2026
South Africa / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE

FADING POPULARITY: Philosopher Slavoj Zizek has adopted pro-Nato positions. Photo: Andy Miah/Creative Commons
Full Marx / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026

Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney speaking during a press conference at Grassmarket Apex Hotel, Edinburgh, following the 2026 Holyrood elections, May 9, 2026
Features / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026

The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW

TARGETED: The impressive memorial at Berlin’s Treptower Park. Photo: Tx0h / Creative Commons
Features / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026

Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports

LOGICAL CONCLUSION: Baroness Eluned Morgan speaks to the media yesterday after announcing her resignation as leader of Welsh Labour after her party suffered heavy defeats
Wales / 8 May 2026
8 May 2026

On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right

Janet Hughes (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge) / Pic: Henry Fowler, GFTU
Features / 9 May 2026
9 May 2026

Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (centre) and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley (right) meeting first responders from Shomrim North West London during a visit to Golders Green, north west London, following a terror attack on Wednesday morning in which two men were stabbed, April 30, 2026
Opinion / 9 May 2026
9 May 2026

ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country

Students march against the military dictatorship, 1966
Features / 9 May 2026
9 May 2026

Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports

President Donald Trump speaks as he visits the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to see the new blue protective coating being applied as part of a renovation project, May 7, 2026, in Washington
Features / 9 May 2026
9 May 2026

It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter