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DISCUSSIONS in Glasgow this weekend on the way forward for the left in Scotland in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union are heartening.
We cannot afford to lose time restaging the arguments over the EU if we are to stand any chance of influencing the course of events.
To do so would be to give a free pass to those in Westminster and Holyrood who are determined to ensure the best result for capital and the privileged classes. They have their ultimate goal in sight and the only chance that the working class has of fending off their assaults is by keeping our objective clear too.
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL