Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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The anti-politics of Starmer’s Labour
Recent events show it’s the Labour right’s intention to shrink the political sphere and minimise popular engagement, warns COLL McCAIL
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (centre) and the new Labour MP for Rutherglen and Hamilton West Michael Shanks (left) at a rally following Scottish Labour's win in Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, October 2023
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
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
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
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
EARLIER this week, Labour Together’s Josh Simons took to the airwaves to suggest shipping a barge of people-smuggler gangs to the north of Scotland.
Speaking days before the start of the Scottish Labour conference, Simons’s suggestion was widely condemned. Well accustomed to dealing with such clangers from London, Scottish Labour described Simons’s LBC appearance as a “moment of cringe” from the “fringes” of the party.
This was disingenuous. Labour Together is central to the Starmer project, having propelled the London MP to the Labour leadership in 2020.
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