A vast US war fleet deployed in the south Caribbean — ostensibly to fight drug-trafficking but widely seen as a push for violent regime change — has sparked international condemnation and bipartisan resistance in the US itself. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
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Now is the time for working people and the youth to seize the initiative
The strength of our movement is to be found in all of the thousands of struggles, big and small, which are taking place up and down this country, says YCL leader JOHNNIE HUNTER
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
THE People’s Assembly’s national demonstration comes together in London against a desperate backdrop for working people.
Well over 130,000 people have died during the Covid-19 pandemic. The vast majority of these deaths were preventable.
Millions of workers have been thrown into poverty or on the scrap heap. A whole generation of young people have had their lives and education carelessly disrupted and their futures thrown into doubt. Ruling class and Tory incompetence is to blame for all of this.
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