IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
What was it like to grow up under communism in the old cold war?
An extract from Goulash And Solidarity, by ZSUZSANNA CLARK, a memoir of life in Hungary in the 1970s and ’80s, written from a working-class perspective
'As I hope to show, Hungarians like myself, who grew up in the years of so-called goulash communism' were actually the lucky ones
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
VIKTOR ORBAN, the current Hungarian Prime Minister, has described my generation — those whose fate was sealed by the “failure” of the famous 1956 uprising against the communist government as — “the lost generation.”
Now, it’s true that some things were lost to us. We were not, until 1988, able to travel whenever we wanted to countries outside the socialist bloc.
We weren’t able to vote for parties other than the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party (and the affiliated Patriotic People’s Front), because none was allowed to exist.
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