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Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
Telling it how it was
A century since the publication of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, conditions have improved for some but the system of exploitation Robert Tressell described is as entrenched as ever. TREVOR HOPPER on the man and his work
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
"The Golden light that will be diffused throughout all the happy world from the rays of the risen sun of Socialism."
Well, Robert Tressell (real name Noonan), we are still waiting. The final sentence of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is not the only line from the socialist polemic that can seem at best ironic 100 years after its publication.
The penultimate paragraph refers to "the Nemesis which was overtaking the capitalist system... was now fast crumbling into ruin... its memory universally excoriated and abhored."
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