State machinery was widely employed to secure favourable outcomes in India’s recent regional elections against three progressive regional governments who dared to challenge Narendra Modi, asserts VIJAY PRASHAD
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To mark Local and Community History Month, ANDY CROFT has been talking to two veterans of the Communist Party in Middlesbrough about their memories of the 1960s
It is too early to assume a US defeat in Iran — we must prepare for a long anti-war struggle, argues JOHN ROSS
ROGER McKENZIE says the ANC needs to respect South Africa’s Communists and their decision to stand independently at elections
KENNY MacASKILL remembers the woman who first translated The Communist Manifesto into English
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
THE Communist Party was once a powerful force on Teesside, with a distinguished record of local campaigns and public agitations, influential in the shipbuilding, steel, railway and local government trade unions.
In the 1920s, the party led the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement in a bitterly fought struggle to hold public meetings at Stockton Cross.
In the 1930s, communists led the campaign against the British Union of Fascists on Teesside.
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In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled
Maggie Bowden was a trailblazing campaigning lawyer at Birnberg and Thompsons, women’s organiser of the Communist Party, and general secretary of Liberation