How big business took over the Labour Party

The following. article by Adam Ramsay was first posted by openDemocracy. It shows how corporate lobbyists have successfully pushed Keir Starmer’s party to ditch its progressive policies HOW BIG BUSINESS TOOK OVER THR LABOUR PARTY Over the summer, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party for the first time articulated a clear vision for government: everything will continue to be…

Remembering Wave Hill: when Australia’s indigenous fought back

The following article, written by Chloe Koffman was first posted by The Tribune.  It looks back to an inspirational struggfle which linked Australis’s indigenous workers with Australian labour movement and the key role played by the Australian Communist Party and on te winning of land rights by the Guirindji people. REMEMBERING WAVE HILL: WHEN AUSTRALIA’S…

Climate change or system change

This article was written by Ali Fleming, an Extinction Rebellion activist. It argues that only system change can help us now. It was first posted by rs21. The Cerberus heatwave has lived up to its savage name with extreme temperatures that have been deadly for Southern Europe. While it was easy to ignore the catastrophes…

Norway: thousands of youth demonstrated against “Green Colonialism”

The following article, written by Matthew Walters,  was first posted by Left Voice (USA). From the end of February to the beginning of March, over a thousand youth protested against the construction of wind turbines on Sami land. This movement represents the birth of a militant, Indigenous-led environmentalist movement. NORWAY:THOUSANDS OF YOUTH DEMONSTRATED AGAINST’GREEN COLONIALISM’…

The Winds of Change at Gartymore

George Gunn is a signatory to the 2023 Declaration of Calton Hill. In this thought provoking article, first posted by bella caledonia, George argues that climate activists should take inspiration from the Highland Land League’s slogan “Is treasa tuath na tighearna” (The people are mightier than a lord.) Allan Armstrong adds his own comment at…

Declarations of Love: review by Mary McGregor

Mary McGregor reviews Declarations of Love, poems of Jim Aitken, with drawings by  Martin Gollan. Thos book is published by Culture Matters.  DECLARATIONS OF LOVE Jim Aitken is truly a people’s poet. No allusions so obscure that you need volumes of classical texts to decipher. No pretensions of language so convoluted that you need a…

Earthquake in Turkey: the state versus the people

The following article by Sarah Glynn first appeared in bella caledonia.  It ends with a financial appeal to an organisation which can get aid through to the people, despite  the Turkish government’s attempt to use the earthquake to crush the opposition. EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY: THE STATE VERSUS THE PEOPLE What do you do when you…

Edinburgh marches against COP27

 The following article on the COP27 Coalition march, organised to coincide withe world wide protest against the COP27 leaders and corporate capitals’s continued attempts to greenwash their activities, was written by Stehen Topple and  first posted by The Canary.   EDINBURGH MARCHES AGAINST COP27 Several thousand people marched through Edinburgh on Saturday 12 November. This was…

Aneurin Bevin on the Socialist ambitions of the NHS

This article written by the Editorial Board of Tribune points out that decades on from the creation of the NHS, there is no scarcity of praise for the greatest social achievement in Britain’s history, but readers of the mainstream press today find precious little mention of its socialist roots. However, this article and interview are struck by…

Covid-19 – not going away

The following article by James Linney, first posted by Weekly Worker, shows the dismal inability to defeat the pandemic points to a wider systemic failure.   COVID-19 – NOT GOING AWAY  Last week the total number of deaths in the UK relating to Covid-19 surpassed 200,000 – a truly horrible statistic and a far cry from…