100 years on from the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, it’s time for an apology Over 1,000 people were murdered in one of the most infamous episodes of British imperialism. AMARJITE SINGH explains
Wednesday 23rd Jan 2019 Science and Society Defining the kilogram: a massive question The International Prototpe of a Kilogram is getting old and fat, 130 years and 50 micrograms overweight to be precise. But how to replace it? SCIENCE AND SOCIETY explain
Wednesday 23rd Jan 2019 It’s time to smash the Tories, stay in the EU and deliver the Corbyn project We must stand up for working people by fighting Tory Brexit, says MANUEL CORTES
Tuesday 22nd Jan 2019 Political prisoners and mass repression in Azerbaijan Political exile ZAMIRA ABBASOVA relays the case of Mehman Huseynov, an unjustly imprisoned journalist who is now on hunger strike - a strike that has spread across her embattled homeland
Tuesday 22nd Jan 2019 Voices of Scotland Leave or remain, our goal must be a socialist government In Scotland, the myriad positions on staying in or leaving the European Union, intersecting with positions on staying in or leaving the UK, can become a major distraction - the socialist position has to be to put a socialist government above all else, writes Unison's JOHN STEVENSON
Tuesday 22nd Jan 2019 Class struggle in California's classrooms The first mass teacher industrial action of 2019 is unfolding in California as the United Teachers Los Angeles walk out for the first time in 30 years - ERIN MCHENRY-SORBER gives us three reasons why this strike is particularly significant
Monday 21st Jan 2019 ‘Today, capitalism has out-lived its usefulness’: Martin Luther King MARTIN LUTHER KING spoke with vision against capitalism, and about the kind of changes needed to replace it: the following quotes reflect some of King’s key thoughts on the subject as US citizens mark Martin Luther King Day
Monday 21st Jan 2019 Will Parliament turn on the people? We fought long and hard for a democracy we could fully participate in – only to have the Tories devolve the nation’s economic soverignty to the EU. Brexit puts us back on track, but that too is facing a subversion of democracy, writes DOUG NICHOLLS
Monday 21st Jan 2019 Hitachi’s pull-out: crony capitalism and climate crime ADAM VAN COEVORDEN argues the aborted deal to build a nuclear power plant exemplifies everything that’s wrong with our approach to energy – and only nationalised renewables are the way forward
Sunday 20th Jan 2019 Trying to sue socialism: Trump ratchets up the pressure on Cuba Using a previously unenforced law against trade with Cuba, the Trump administration is heading towards a major showdown with the international community, writes ROB MILLER
Sunday 20th Jan 2019 Cuban schools encourage the working class In our latest missive from the annual teachers’ union fact-finding tour to Cuba, ARETHA GREEN notices that through art, literature, and the socialist ideology present in communal learning techniques, all Cuban children are empowered
