HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources

THE extraordinary first year of Covid obscured the scale of the crisis facing labour movement politics.
Now, like a dam breaching, the results of last week’s elections in England have unleashed a flood of realisation. The danger is this: sinking now or clinging to bits of driftwood only to sink later.
Last week was not itself an epochal shift. It was the latest imprimatur upon changes that have been underway for two decades. It means some fundamental questioning about the state we are in as a labour and socialist movement. That is true not only in Britain but across Europe and elsewhere.

LAURA PIDCOCK and PAUL O’CONNELL introduces Rise, a political platform for working-class activism

In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
