With speculation growing about a Labour leadership contest in 2026, only a decisive break with the current direction – on the economy, foreign policy and migrants – can avert disaster and offer a credible alternative, writes DIANE ABBOTT
The waters are running red in Africa’s Great Lakes region
A war is raging that we can’t ignore any longer, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
DESPERATE: People fleeing the fighting between government forces and M-23 rebels make their way towards Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo
Repression against left-wing, anti-imperialist and Palestine solidarity structures in Germany is increasingly aimed at undermining their economic means of existence, says LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
Decades of centre-left accommodation and deepening inequality have opened the door to a hard-right restoration — posing stark challenges for the left, argues FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
Despite systemic racism and far-right hostility, Britain’s migrant and black communities continue to contribute, inspire, and resist. Through education, art, and intergenerational solidarity, the next generation can help shape a future rooted in justice, understanding, and hope, says ZITA HOLBOURNE
JULIA BARD looks at the persistence of anti-semitism on the political right – and its troubling emergence on parts of the left, too
From the mainstreaming of far-right ideas to Europe’s looming conflicts, 2025 has been a year of sharp warnings. The coming year demands decisive action before these crises escalate, writes ANDREW MURRAY
IN EARLY November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vincent Biruta, met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing in eastern DRC for decades.
The foreign ministers agreed that the “peace roadmap” agreed to in a July meeting had to be implemented.
Angola’s President Joao Lourenco shuttled between Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and the DRC’s President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi in his role as the African Union’s “mediator in the crisis” between Rwanda and the DRC.
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