Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Another Nato is not possible
NICK WRIGHT looks at the strange delusions neccessary for those on the left that are so appalled by Putin that they now argue that the capitalist and military alliances of Europe can suddenly be radically democratised in time for war with Russia
Polish troops march in Romania during last year's Defender Europe 21, a US Army-led, massive, multinational, joint sabre-rattling exercise designed to build readiness for war and interoperability between NATO and partner militaries
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
IN RELATION to the crisis enacted out on the territory of Ukraine there are several ideas that form the basis of the position adopted by what we might call the “internationalist left.”
“Internationalist” in this context defines the left that elevates the interests of the working class as a whole over any spurious “national interest” shared with our rulers.
The foundation is opposition to the continued existence and global or regional dominance of military blocs. Where once the innocent deemed this a possibility — grounded in the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact which had united the socialist countries of Europe and thus ceased to exist when socialism was dismantled — it has now vanished along with illusions about an end to the history of class struggle.
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Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
In the first half of a two-part article, PETER MERTENS looks at how Nato’s €800 billion ‘Readiness 2030’ plan serves Washington’s pivot to the Pacific, forcing Europeans to dismantle social security and slash pensions to fund it
