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Andrew Murray
President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he departs a
Eyes Left / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
ANDREW MURRAY casts an eye over past upheavals and asks whether the left can find a fire escape before the world goes up in flames
Jonathan Reynolds 12.4.25
Britain / 12 April 2025
12 April 2025
But Business Secretary downplays prospect of full nationalisation and declines to extend emergency assistance to Port Talbot or Grangemouth
A Reform UK activist holds up a banner as party leader Nigel
Britain / 10 April 2025
10 April 2025
Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives, who
Britain / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
Meanwhile, Labour government toughens rhetoric against the genocide, but stops short of making any changes in policy or practical support for Israel
Clothing showing an image of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Eyes Left / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a joint press confere
Britain / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exch
Britain / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Protest 25.3.25
Britain / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
Chancellor Reeves' planned public spending cuts will ‘open the door’ for Reform UK, McDonnell warns as campaigners get set to rally outside the Treasury
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a meeting a
Britain / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking to the media in Dow
Britain / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
Starmer under pressure over cruel plan to slash welfare budget
Screen grab of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking duri
Britain / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with Prime Minister of Canad
Eyes Left / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
With Labour abandoning its base through welfare cuts and warmongering, a genuine progressive alternative is urgently needed but must avoid any whiff of Trump infatuation syndrome and national populism, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall leaves Downing Stree
Britain / 18 March 2025
18 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Tax rich instead of cutting benefits, PM told
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall arrives in Downing S
Britain / 11 March 2025
11 March 2025
A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Britain / 6 March 2025
6 March 2025
DRAWING A LINE: Anneliese Dodds, who resigned as development
Eyes Left / 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
Starmer’s unseemly rush to the right is part of a historical pattern when Labour is in power, argues ANDREW MURRAY, but there’s no reason why politics in general should follow this trajectory
get in
Book Review / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
ANDREW MURRAY welcomes the inside story of Labour under Starmer for the revelations it offers as to who is pulling the strings
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leaves after delivering a st
Britain / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
cartoon
Eyes Left / 19 February 2025
19 February 2025
ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
A protest outside Westminster Magistrates' Court, February 1
Britain / 13 February 2025
13 February 2025
Hundreds protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court as Stop the War Coalition and Palestine Solidarity Campaign activists attend court
Two children wait to get water next to a line of empty jerry
Britain / 6 February 2025
6 February 2025
Starmer under pressure from all sides to condemn Trump’s plan to drive Palestinians out of Gaza
A young Palestinian kid carries jerricans along the destruct
World / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
Campaigners condemn Trump's ‘grotesque’ plans to ‘relocate’ the Palestinians in Gaza and call on British government to ‘defend international law’
Labour MP Zarah Sultana, speaks during a strike rally in Tra
Britain / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
Labour continues suspension of Apsana Begum, Zarah Sultana and John McDonnell
Chagossians attend a protest
Britain / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
Fascist goons throw objects towards police officer at the Ho
Eyes Left / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
ANDREW MURRAY reviews studies on the motivations of last August's rioters and dwindling support for 'democracy' in its modern Western incarnation
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Britain / 4 February 2025
4 February 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Britain / 29 January 2025
29 January 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a business meeting with t
Britain / 29 January 2025
29 January 2025
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister walks in the direction of the biggest bosses
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Britain / 28 January 2025
28 January 2025
Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, (centre) on a TSSA pic
Britain / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
Thousands of shipping containers at the Port of Felixstowe i
Britain / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
Meanwhile, Keir Starmer says government will ‘take on the nimbys’ by reducing the right to appeal against major infrastructure projects
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederati
Britain / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
Suella Braverman gives a speech at Fareham Leisure Centre in
Britain / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
JC+Co
Eyes Left / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
An Israeli army APC moves in the Gaza Strip as seen from sou
World / 16 January 2025
16 January 2025
While Israel stalls on ceasefire agreement, its military kills another 78 people in Gaza
Letting and estate agents signs outside flats in London
Britain / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
HIGH-TECH FAR-RIGHT: Elon Musk at Giorgia Meloni’s Brother
Eyes Left / 8 January 2025
8 January 2025
The trolling of our nation by Twitter’s clown prince points to very real weaknesses in the current regime as it cowers before Trump’s coming reign — it is time for Corbyn-era forces to unite and take on Starmer, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as see
Britain / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Britain / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick deliv
Britain / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
Campaigners take part in a protest against the government's
Britain / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
The body of a victim of an Israeli army strike on a house in
Britain / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
Tony Blair
National archives / 31 December 2024
31 December 2024
Farage Mandelson 12.24
EYES LEFT / 30 December 2024
30 December 2024
With Mandelson and Farage galloping into 2025 via Mar-a-Lago and wherever else a land-hungry Trump takes a fancy to, ANDREW MURRAY has a sinking feeling about what the next year has in store
summit
Features / 24 December 2024
24 December 2024
From Yemen’s resistance to the rise of China and Brics, the imperial powers face an unprecedented challenge as their proxy wars fail to halt the march toward a multipolar future, writes ANDREW MURRAY
The sign for the Ministry of Defence in London
Britain / 17 December 2024
17 December 2024
school children in a classroom
Britain / 17 December 2024
17 December 2024
A woman looking at houses for sale in the window of an estat
Britain / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf, and Refor
Eyes Left / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
From boozy banker renegade to man-of-the-people populist, Farage’s evolution continues — if he can win constituencies like the Welsh mining areas, the left will need new and better answers, writes ANDREW MURRAY
a laptop user with their hood up
Britain / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
Palestinian children queue at a food distribution kitchen in
Britain / 28 November 2024
28 November 2024
More than 60 signatories urge Foreign Minister to sanction Israel in line with ICC and ICJ
VOICE OF PEACE: Jeremy Corbyn has been one of only a handful
Eyes Left / 27 November 2024
27 November 2024
With Ukraine firing British-made missiles into Russian territory, the risk of being dragged into world war III is greater than ever – so why is there scarcely a murmur from our political class, asks ANDREW MURRAY
People watch an NBC News livestream showing poll results at
Eyes Left / 13 November 2024
13 November 2024
In the US, Establishment liberal imperialism has fallen to what can be accurately described, at the very least, as a kind of right-wing nationalism — but what is the likelihood of full-blown fascism, ask ANDREW MURRAY
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trum
Britain / 6 November 2024
6 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer giving a speech during an ev
Britain / 6 November 2024
6 November 2024
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arrives in Downing St
Britain / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
Kemi Badenoch
Britain / 3 November 2024
3 November 2024
by Andrew Murray Political reporter
Rachel Reeves
Britain / 3 November 2024
3 November 2024
By Andrew Murray Political reporter
Republican US presidential candiate Donald Trump (left) and
Eyes Left / 29 October 2024
29 October 2024
Getting bogged down in the Trump v Harris divide is a distraction from the tasks of ending US hegemony and Britain’s subservience to Washington’s demands, argues ANDREW MURRAY
UK Defense Secretary John Healey (left) arrives to 10 Downin
Britain / 17 October 2024
17 October 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes her keynote
Britain / 17 October 2024
17 October 2024
Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick ahead
Britain / 17 October 2024
17 October 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes her keynote
Britain / 16 October 2024
16 October 2024
Members of Distant Voices, Christian Concern, the Christian
Britain / 16 October 2024
16 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Britain / 16 October 2024
16 October 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the media in Downi
Britain / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
Keir Starmer
Eyes Left / 15 October 2024
15 October 2024
The sidelining of social democrats and embrace of deregulation comes at the same time as a remarkable collapse in public support for the current Labour regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY, so why don’t we go on the offensive?
Conservative Party leadership candidate James Cleverly deliv
Britain / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech duri
Britain / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to t
Eyes Left / 2 October 2024
2 October 2024
The lack of serious debate on electoral weakness and key policy issues only made the disconnect between the leadership’s austerity agenda and the concerns of the party’s rank-and-file more blatant, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Leadership contender Robert Jenrick speaking at an fringe ev
Britain / 1 October 2024
1 October 2024
Leadership contender Robert Jenrick speaking at a fringe eve
Britain / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
Maryrs day
Features / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
ANDREW MURRAY reflects on the achievements and character of socialism with Chinese characteristics
Keir Starmer at Labour no caption
Britain / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
Yvette Cooper conference speech
Britain / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
11 Faiza Rally
Features / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
After his organisation helped elect four independent MPs, ABUBAKR NANABAWA talks to Andrew Murray about how Muslim Vote, although sparked by the war on Gaza, has a working-class agenda that reaches far beyond Muslims
Sharon
Britain / 19 September 2024
19 September 2024
Leftwinger Mish Rahman loses seat on national executive
The Bank of England
Britain / 19 September 2024
19 September 2024
Keir Starmer
Eyes Left / 18 September 2024
18 September 2024
As Keir Starmer alienates his party’s core voters and plummets in the polls, ANDREW MURRAY argues the shifting political landscape exposes Labour’s vulnerability to both right-wing populism — and a resurgent left
An elderly lady with her electric fire on at home in Liverpo
Britain / 4 September 2024
4 September 2024
Robert Jenrick
Britain / 4 September 2024
4 September 2024
Labour MP Jas Athwal
Eyes Left / 4 September 2024
4 September 2024
When there are more landlords in Parliament on the Labour benches than the Tories', whatever happens to her portrait, Thatcher is having the last laugh, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Jeremy Corbyn poses outside Islington Town Hall, north Londo
Britain / 2 September 2024
2 September 2024
Kemi Badenoch
Britain / 2 September 2024
2 September 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his speech and press conf
Britain / 29 August 2024
29 August 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during her visit t
Britain / 28 August 2024
28 August 2024
Age UK warns that two million pensioners could be in serious trouble this winter
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and German Chancellor Ola
Britain / 28 August 2024
28 August 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch p
Britain / 22 August 2024
22 August 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during his visit to Lambeth
Eyes Left / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
The PM’s lack of any meaningful comment on the wave of far-right violence to sweep Britain is remarkable – and is linked to his reluctance to show solidarity with targeted Muslim communities, says ANDREW MURRAY
A general view of the front door of No 10 Downing Street, ce
Britain / 12 August 2024
12 August 2024
green mps
Eyes Left / 10 July 2024
10 July 2024
ANDREW MURRAY looks at Labour's shifting fortunes, the left as it stands in the new parliament and the likely character of the Starmer government
Keir Starmer
Britain / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Braverman
Britain / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Tony Blair
Britain / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
9 - Starmer walk
Features / 5 July 2024
5 July 2024
With less than 34 per cent of votes cast on a turnout of just 60 per cent, no party has got so much for so little. This wasn’t so much a ‘Labour landslide’ as Tory collapse, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Starmer election win
Britain / 5 July 2024
5 July 2024
Labour landslide \'24
Britain / 4 July 2024
4 July 2024
KS interview
Eyes Left: Election Special / 3 July 2024
3 July 2024
An election campaign marked by racism and a willingness for the ‘mainstream’ to enable it gives a strong indication of what politics will look like later on down the line. Can a socialist and anti-imperialist network be forged to counter this dangerous prospect, asks ANDREW MURRAY
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Features / 2 July 2024
2 July 2024
Andrew Murray catches up with Green peer and former party leader NATALIE BENNETT in the Greens’ target seat in Bristol, where they discuss the party’s aim of winning four MPs, Farage, Labour’s lack of policy – and the all-important issue of Gaza
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Redcar and Clev
Britain / 30 June 2024
30 June 2024
Clacton
Features / 30 June 2024
30 June 2024
ANDREW MURRAY visits Nigel Farage’s target constituency and wonders what it is about the seaside town that has put it in Reform UK’s sights
Jennie Formby
Britain / 28 June 2024
28 June 2024
9Jeremycorbyn
Interview / 28 June 2024
28 June 2024
Andrew Murray talks to JEREMY CORBYN about his campaign as an independent, Labour’s shift to the right, the emergence of a thriving peace movement as an opportunity for the politics of the future, and his intention to ‘fight to the very end for every last vote’
Starmer debate
Britain / 27 June 2024
27 June 2024
Jabu Nala-Hartley
Britain / 27 June 2024
27 June 2024
Campaigners and charities including Show Israel the Red Card
Eyes Left / 26 June 2024
26 June 2024
In light of the mass movement in solidarity with Gaza, there is a simple metric to assess whether a Labour candidate deserves your support on July 4, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Rishi Sunak
Eyes Left / 24 June 2024
24 June 2024
If the Conservative Party does indeed find itself reduced to a pitiful rump at the election, it is not just comeuppance for the last 14 years but a crumb of justice for two centuries of utter disgrace, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Stoltenberg Sunak
Britain / 23 June 2024
23 June 2024
Leaders join forces to condemn Farage for comments on Nato expansionism
Starmer
Eyes Left / 18 June 2024
18 June 2024
The Labour leader’s threadbare platform exposes the bankruptcy of liberal orthodoxy, not just here in Britain but as an era that is ending, with the far right waiting in the wings, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Faiza and baby rally
Features / 17 June 2024
17 June 2024
In one of the most dishonest episodes of the recent purges, Labour HQ has tried to deny Chingford the chance to vote for a committed and talented socialist — but ANDREW MURRAY finds she is fighting back, with huge local support
Lorraine Douglas
Features / 13 June 2024
13 June 2024
While the infamous ex-PM pens apocalyptic tomes ‘on saving the West,’ locals hunger for basic services like dentists and public transport, not doomsday prophecies about China, Communist Party candidate LORRAINE DOUGLAS tells Andrew Murray
Jeremy Corbyn
Britain / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
8 - Starmer
Eyes Left / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
Starmer’s Labour is dog-whistling so loud it’s deafening, safe in the knowledge the minority communities being slighted by these affronts largely have nowhere else to turn. Remember these betrayals, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Reform UK
Britain / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
Sunak d-day
Britain / 7 June 2024
7 June 2024