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A group of demonstrators from the anti-immigration protest, organised by Unite the Clans Scotland, break away from the rally and march towards Glasgow city centre, July 25, 2026
Far Right / 26 July 2026
26 July 2026
Maz Saleem
Anti-Fascism / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family

Iran
Book Review / 24 July 2026
24 July 2026

BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions

MADE IN THE USA: Funeral cortege for victims of the US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School on February 28 only recently identified through DNA testing, Minab, Iran last Tuesday / Pic: Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP
Labour / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP

McLaren driver Lando Norris of Britain celebrates after winning the Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix auto race, at the Hungaroring racetrack in Mogyorod, near Budapest, Hungary, July 26, 2026
F1 / 26 July 2026
26 July 2026
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MADE IN THE USA: Funeral cortege for victims of the US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School on February 28 only recently identified through DNA testing, Minab, Iran last Tuesday / Pic: Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP
Labour / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP

Features / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever

Maz Saleem
Anti-Fascism / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family

WINNING TEAM: Shavanah Taj, General Secretary of Wales TUC joins, with her two daughters, protesters from the National Education Union (NEU), Trades Union Congress (TUC), Public and Commercial Services (PCS), and University and College Union (UCU) at a TUC rally in central Cardiff, February 2023
Workers' Rights / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC

A water bomber drops water while fighting wildfires In Ares, western France, July 24, 2026
Environment / 25 July 2026
25 July 2026

Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS

(L to R) Clem Beckett; remnants of the Republican trenches Jarama, the hill in front was in Nationalist hands the Madrid-Valencia is to the left of the picture / Pics (L to R): Unknown; 19Tarrestnom65
Spanish Civil War / 24 July 2026
24 July 2026

A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist

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Cinema / 23 July 2026
23 July 2026

ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung

railroaded
Book Review / 24 July 2026
24 July 2026

RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers

Iran
Book Review / 24 July 2026
24 July 2026

BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions

E Jean Carroll [Pic: Courtesy of Dogwoof]
Film of the Week / 23 July 2026
23 July 2026

MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice

red texas
Book Review / 23 July 2026
23 July 2026

KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war

bagot
Book Review / 23 July 2026
23 July 2026

PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society