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Labour’s investment pledges can revitalise communities
Labour in Scotland has a steep hill to climb, but candidate for Airdrie and Shotts HELEN McFARLANE believes the party’s policies on public services and jobs are winning people over
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IT IS undeniable that the rightward drift of Labour during the Blair and Brown years alienated many of the party’s core working-class voters, perhaps most of all in Scotland.
The popularity of the SNP, the independence referendum and its aftermath have left people divided along constitutional lines, a problem for the left which is echoed across the UK too, following the EU referendum.
Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters and activists have a huge job ahead of them to reframe the debate in terms of anti-austerity politics, but there are a number of excellent left Labour candidates across Scotland prepared to take on this challenge.
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The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK
LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’