Opinion Democracy at a crossroads in India ARKA BHADURI surveys the ongoing election's political panorama
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Privatisation is not the answer We need a proper strategy to revitalise our public services – expecting privateers to rush to the rescue is no answer to the problems in the NHS and elsewhere, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Germany lashes out as its complicity with Israel is condemned British-Palestinian war surgeon, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, was barred from attending a Berlin conference and deported after Germany recoiled in shock at Nicaragua’s genocide accusations at the ICJ, reports JOHN PERRY
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Gaza: what did you do in the war? As the slaughter in Palestine continues and the solidarity movement’s calls for accountability and a shift in international policy grow, political leaders must realise they face a reckoning for their silence, writes HUGH LANNING
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Forging a better road for tomorrow SIMON BRIGNELL explains why he’s compelled to stand in Cambridge local election on a Communist Party ticket
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Scotland faces an unjust transition The wind energy boom in Scotland is not going to Scotland — why are we allowing both the jobs and the energy being produced go to foreign companies, asks KENNY MACASKILL MP
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Saudi Arabia to helm UN women’s forum: an irony lost on no-one How has Saudi Arabia, notorious for human rights abuses, been appointed to lead the UN commission on gender equality despite continuing to imprison women activists advocating for basic rights, asks MARYAM ALDOSSARI
Friday 19th Apr 2024 From Sharpeville to Gaza: the international fight against racism ADRIAN LEE reports on the annual Anti-Racism Day event held by The Liberation Movement, an anti-racist campaigning group founded in 2021
Friday 19th Apr 2024 Glasgow honours Orgreave KEITH STODDART introduces a meeting that will remember the most notorious incident of the strike that changed Britain forever
Friday 19th Apr 2024 The health service emergency is no accident If you need a hospital now, you may not realise you are being robbed at the door as private firms cash in on A&E – with Labour waiting in the wings to bring in even more privatisation, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Friday 19th Apr 2024 Wes Streeting and the history of ‘the middle class’ Socialist historian KEITH FLETT unpacks the term currently being flung about by the Labour right as an insult and finds its popular association with ‘being a lefty’ is anything but assured in reality