This year marks the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. TOM GALLAHUE and ROBERT POOLE from Educators for a United Ireland discuss the role played by the Irish diaspora, and why the Rising remains relevant today
The first leaf of autumn had not fallen from the tree before it became obvious that the Tory government is in an even more chaotic state than it was before MPs went on their overlong summer break.
Brexit is a shambles, whichever way you voted in the referendum.
The Tory government’s one aim is to survive in office and to make Brexit into the most anti-democratic, anti-migrant, pro-business deal it can get.
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
People's Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion



