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
Scouting for boys: imperialists vs the YCL
PETER FROST digs out his old Boy Scout uniform — including his leather woggle — and looks back to the history of red-baiting in what was once Britain’s biggest male youth movement
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Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
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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
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WE HADN’T long won the second world war, with our Soviet allies suffering 27 million dead, when in 1946 Winston Churchill made his “Iron Curtain” speech to launch the Cold War.
On both sides of the Atlantic red-baiting became an industry, and communists were persecuted everywhere from Hollywood to the Boy Scouts of Britain.
Paul Garland was a Queen’s Scout from Bristol. He was also a member of the Young Communist League (YCL). He could see no reason not to be a loyal member of both youth organisations.
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