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There is a concerted attempt to rehabilitate fascism and downplay the resistance of working people and the communist role in defeating fascist barbarism. We underestimate this trend at our peril, warns JONATHAN WHITE
After years of struggle in the MAS party, the mass movement of left-wing peasants and workers has founded a new party, with former president Evo Morales as its candidate for the summer’s elections, writes CINDY FORSTER
Sixty years after his murder, it is up to all of us to defy ruling-class attempts to sanitise or distort his revolutionary legacy by upholding his deep understanding of capitalism’s ties to racism and empire, writes ISAAC SANEY
As we face savage cuts to our pay and conditions while the executive gravy train chugs on, Unite is putting the Scottish government on notice as workers prepare for a massive wave of resistance, writes DEREK THOMSON
Lenin’s theory of the weakest link shifted the centre of gravity of the proletarian revolution towards peoples’ struggles in the developing world, contrary to the expectation of Marx and Engels. The effect was to hinder the cause of socialism by decades. Time bring it back to its natural home, argues FAWZI IBRAHIM
Labour is deliberately continuing Tory policies that cost us £38 billion more than they save while driving illness rates higher — despite the evidence that previous sanctions doubled suicide attempts, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The towering figures of the North American right and the South American left are set to clash this summer as Brazil hosts Brics, an alliance Trump is determined to smash, reports TONY BURKE
TODAY, in the midst of what even our rulers describe as the worst crisis since 1945, the people of Britain will be enveloped in a cloud of toxic ideological matter ejected from the British state’s propaganda vents.
The country continues to reel under the Covid-19 crisis: its death toll now the highest in Europe; its dilapidated social and economic infrastructure — asset-stripped by years of neoliberal reform — brutally exposed; the corruption, complicity and complacency of its ruling class on show for all to see.
What better time, therefore, to dust off the gilded upholstery of the monarchic state, wheel out the monarch to intone about our shared heritage in the British wartime spirit, put Churchill’s speeches on repeat and start mainlining conservative nostalgia?
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