DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
A high-handed disrespect for Scotland’s democracy
The Westminster government’s decision to invoke Section 35 over the gender recognition reform Bill on trans rights is a cynical attack on the principle of devolution, argues MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP
CONTROVERSY: An aerial view of the Scottish Parliament
at Holyrood
JOHN PERRY and FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ unpack the latest propaganda attack on Nicaragua, explaining how a clearly biased, US-backed regime-change NGO used a totally unrepresentative sample and survey methodology to get a ridiculous result
In 1981, towering figure for the British left Tony Benn came a whisker away from victory, laying the way for a wave of left-wing Labour Party members, MPs and activism — all traces of which are now almost entirely purged by Starmer, writes KEITH FLETT
ANDREW MURRAY breaks down this week’s rift in the new left party that was at one point polling at 15 per cent of the vote without even having formed — whether it will form now has been thrown into a pit of doubt
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues we shouldn’t see last week’s march as an inarticulate outpouring of confused class consciousness, arguing that the agenda was set by the stars of the international far right, whose speeches were explicit, extreme and unopposed
BERNADETTE KEAVENEY announces a simplified and streamlined way to get your paper delivered daily, and a big push for new readers that we can all help make into a success
AS socialists, whose side are we on? Are we on the side of Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, which is attacking trans rights and undermining devolution?
Or are we on the side of trade unionists, feminists, civil society and human rights organisations standing up for trans rights and defending democracy?
The answer should be obvious.
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Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba
The shock suspension of socialist MPs and Diane Abbott’s re-suspension reveals a leadership intent on crushing internal debate — but MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP warns against surrendering party democracy without a fight
Attempts to mystify the workings of the economy in a neoliberal smog are failing — the British public is calling out for an interventionist approach under direct state control, writes MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP
MERCEDES VILLALBA MSP looks at the Scottish government’s proposed Land Reform Act and argues that it fails to properly address this entrenched inequality that is obstructing housing and environmental reform
