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Those who do the counting

Shedloads of members’ money was spent on a red-baiting election campaign. Grassroots Left remains committed to fight for the kind of socialist, democratic and anti-Zionist party that is urgently needed. Carla Roberts reports

Sticking plaster budgets

We want a democracy for the people that works through the people. Tam Dean Burn reports on the ‘people’s budget’ initiative proposed by Your Party councillors in Glasgow

Beware of Sparts bearing gifts

We have a common view that open polemics, as sharp as may be necessary, are essential to any lasting, any worthwhile unity. However, there are those who object. Mike Macnair replies to Vincent David of the Spartacist League

Escape from paradise

Under a catastrophic US oil blockade, the country is suffering blackouts, shortages of basics and a draining exodus of young people. Yet there are still those on the left who imagine that small and medium-sized countries can be really independent and even build their very own socialist society, writes Eddie Ford

A strange endgame

Did Chávez and Maduro preside over a brave ‘socialist’ experiment? No, argues Michael Roberts - it was the absence of socialist policies, not least to end the sabotage of the economy, that brought the country to its knees

Eagle vs dragon

Artificial intelligence has moved beyond fancy software and millions of chips. Today it is about geostrategic competition between the US and China. Yassamine Mather investigates how these two countries have adopted two different approaches

Strike against death machine

There has not being anything like the February 6 coordination in terms of scale so far. Toby Abse welcomes the overtly political strike action taken by dockers against Israel’s continued assault on the Palestinians

Online Communist Forum, Sunday February 29 5pm

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