National

On the 70th Anniversary of the Victory at Stalingrad, Mark Perryman, explains why this battle and its outcome still matters today. Seventy years ago, 2 February 1943 is the date of the Red Army victory at Stalingrad. From the moment of near-certain defeat the previous year the siege of the city, Hitler’s gateway to success […] Read more »

In 1991, Kate Hudson was one of the leaders of the left opposition within the Communist Party of Great Britain that unsuccessfully attempted to prevent that organisation’s dissolution. Here she writes on political life after the Party. For me, it all began with class. My grandfather, Percy Hudson, worked in the coke ovens at Horden […] Read more »

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Today an estimated 25,000 people marched to save Lewisham Hospital from having its A&E Department closed, and other services severely downgraded, in plans put forward by a government-appointed NHS Special Administrator, Matthew Kershaw. This was part of his solution to the financial problems of a neighbouring NHS Trust, the South London Healthcare Trust, burdened with […] Read more »

Events themselves are driving us towards greater European cooperation. In the context of the social, economic and political catastrophe that is facing much of Europe, this increasing cooperation – of trade unions, left parties and social movements – must be understood as an urgent necessity, not as a luxury or a diversion from national struggles. […] Read more »

Europe is plunging deeper and deeper into crisis. Its governments are continuing with their failed austerity policies which are destroying the social and economic gains working people have made over many decades. The economic crisis has increasingly become a social and political crisis as people face poverty, hunger and even death, as a result of […] Read more »