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A pregnancy test kit indicating pregnancy
Britain / 14 May 2025
MPs and charities back abortion law change
14 May 2025
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden delivers a keynote speech to the CyberUK conference at the Central Convention Complex in Manchester, May 7, 2025
Civil Service / 14 May 2025
Do right by workers, Civil Service unions urge
14 May 2025
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) takes part pro-Palestine march in central London, organised by a number of groups under the Palestine Coalition banner, March 15, 2025
Britain / 13 May 2025
John Cryer branded a 'liar' over Stop the War smear
13 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
Eyes Left / 14 May 2025
Starmer’s Powellite gambit: why Labour’s far-right turn will backfire
14 May 2025

Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless

Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves the end of a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
Labour Party / 13 May 2025
MPs denounce Starmer's ‘shameful scapegoating’ of migrants
13 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump shake hands at a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House, February 27, 2025
Trump's Tariffs / 8 May 2025
Starmer trumpets US trade deal as MPs rebel on cuts
8 May 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the London Defence Conference at Bush House in London, May 8, 2025
VE Day 2025 / 8 May 2025
Starmer marks 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat by pledging renewal of militarism
8 May 2025
BACK TO THE DARK AGES: A child mill worker in the US, 1908
Eyes Left / 30 April 2025
Did anyone have ‘the return of child labour’ down for 2025?
30 April 2025

Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY

US President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he depart
Eyes Left / 16 April 2025
Geopolitical breakdown: lessons from the history of capitalism
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
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds outlines the draft legi
Britain / 12 April 2025
Labour Takes Over Scunthorpe Steel in Commons Snap Debate
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
Badenoch green-lights local Reform pacts
10 April 2025
Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives, who
Britain / 2 April 2025
Israel plans to expand Gaza invasion and ‘crush and clean the area,’ its Defence Minister says
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
An opportunity for left advance?
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 Keir Starmer during a joint press conference
Britain / 1 April 2025
Starmer set for Trump tariff snub
1 April 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
Reeves launches ‘cruel attack on disabled people’ instead of taxing the super-rich
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
Unions slam Reeves cuts and urge wealth tax
26 March 2025
Protesters outside the Treasury this evening
Britain / 25 March 2025
‘Tax the Super-Rich’ instead of slashing services, Labour told
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
Reeves plans new cuts as economy sags
20 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking to the media in Downing
Britain / 19 March 2025
‘There is nothing moral about cutting benefits’
19 March 2025
Starmer under pressure over cruel plan to slash welfare budget
Screen grab of Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during P
Britain / 19 March 2025
Starmer wobbles on Israeli onslaught
19 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Prime Minister of Canada Ma
Eyes Left / 19 March 2025
The space to the left of Starmer is wide open
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
MPs, unions and charities unite to fight Labour cuts
18 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
‘Austerity damaged the nation’s health. We must not make Tories' mistake again’
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
Labour MPs divided on welfare cuts
11 March 2025
Reform UK MP Robert Lowe, January 31, 2025
Britain / 11 March 2025
Far-right billionaire Musk reported ready to ‘fund Reform breakaway’
11 March 2025
Runcorn and Helsby MP Mike Amesbury (centre) leaving Chester
Britain / 11 March 2025
Labour to face a tough by-election after disgraced MP Mike Amesbury quits
11 March 2025
A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Britain / 6 March 2025
MPs urge action on dodgy political cash
6 March 2025
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood giving a speech at London
Britain / 6 March 2025
Labour trying to reverse sentencing guidelines aimed at protecting black people from unfair treatment
6 March 2025
DRAWING A LINE: Anneliese Dodds, who resigned as development
Eyes Left / 5 March 2025
The final straw?
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
A tent camp for displaced Palestinians is set up amid destr
Britain / 4 March 2025
Corbyn urges enquiry into Britain’s complicity in Gaza genocide
4 March 2025
BACK STABBER: Keir Starmer, then Brexit secretary, readies t
Book Review / 27 February 2025
A study in cynicism
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
Starmer making the world a more dangerous place, Abbott warns
26 February 2025
Cartoon: Songi
Eyes Left / 19 February 2025
Punch-drunk Europe reels from the Trump offensive
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
‘We have got to uphold the right to protest’
13 February 2025
Hundreds protest outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court as Stop the War Coalition and Palestine Solidarity Campaign activists attend court
MI5 director general Ken McCallum delivers a speech at Count
Britain / 12 February 2025
MI5 lied to three courts to protect violent neonazi agent, BBC reports
12 February 2025
Labour's refusal to honour an ombudsman recommendation to co
Britain / 11 February 2025
Labour 'bans MPs from criticising government' after Waspi embarrassment
11 February 2025
Two children wait to get water next to a line of empty jerry
Britain / 6 February 2025
‘President Trump’s plan is an affront to the values that we hold dear’
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
‘This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple’
5 February 2025
Campaigners condemn Trump's ‘grotesque’ plans to ‘relocate’ the Palestinians in Gaza and call on British government to ‘defend international law’
Zarah Sultana MP speaks during a strike rally in Trafalgar S
Britain / 5 February 2025
‘Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence’
5 February 2025
Labour continues suspension of Apsana Begum, Zarah Sultana and John McDonnell
Chagossians attend a protest to respond to the British annou
Britain / 5 February 2025
Corbyn demands Chagos justice as cost row erupts
5 February 2025
Fascist goons throw objects towards police officer at the Ho
Eyes Left / 5 February 2025
Riots, class politics and democracy: all is not as it seems
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
Labour told to change course as Reform UK surges into polling lead
4 February 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Britain / 29 January 2025
Seven newly elected Labour MPs among WASPI rebels
29 January 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a business meeting with t
Britain / 29 January 2025
In work poverty ‘shockingly high,’ TUC warns
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
Ten Labour MPs defy ministers on WASPI justice
28 January 2025
Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, (centre) on a TSSA pic
Britain / 23 January 2025
Labour likely to try to split rebel MPs, Westminster sources say
23 January 2025
Thousands of shipping containers at the Port of Felixstowe i
Britain / 23 January 2025
Labour rules out Euro customs move
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
‘Doom loop’ looming as Reeves axes regulator
22 January 2025
Suella Braverman gives a speech at Fareham Leisure Centre in
Britain / 22 January 2025
Braverman promotes right-wing bloc
22 January 2025
HEAVY HANDED: (Above) Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Jo
Eyes Left / 22 January 2025
What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest?
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
People protest against the arms trade in Camden town, Januar
Britain / 21 January 2025
Protesters force councillors in Starmer’s constituency to consider divestment from arms firms involved in Gaza genocide
21 January 2025
An Israeli army APC moves in the Gaza Strip as seen from sou
World / 16 January 2025
‘Yesterday was a bloody day, but today is bloodier’
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
Renters' protections must go further, campaigners say
14 January 2025
HIGH-TECH FAR-RIGHT: Elon Musk at Giorgia Meloni’s Brother
Eyes Left / 8 January 2025
Musk’s provocations shouldn’t be laughed off
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
Act over Gaza ‘doom loop of hell’, ministers told
7 January 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Britain / 7 January 2025
Farage claims overlap with Corbyn on business and EU
7 January 2025
Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick deliv
Britain / 7 January 2025
Badenoch told to sack Jenrick over inflammatory remarks
7 January 2025
Campaigners take part in a protest against the government's
Britain / 2 January 2025
Twenty councillors quit Labour over winter fuel cuts
2 January 2025
A ballot box is emptied at Northallerton Leisure Centre in N
Britain / 2 January 2025
Britan's democracy at a ‘tipping point,’ think tank warns, as election turnout plummets
2 January 2025
The body of a victim of an Israeli army strike on a house in
Britain / 2 January 2025
SNP calls for ‘immediate end to arms sales to Israel’
2 January 2025
Perfidious Albion: Blair asked Assad to act against jihadist
National archives / 31 December 2024
Blair urged Assad to act against Julani, documents reveal
31 December 2024
Mandelson and Farage are to be charged, it appears, with dis
EYES LEFT / 30 December 2024
The pantomime horse from hell
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
A BETTER WORLD IS ON THE CARDS: The 16th BRICS Summit in Kaz
Features / 24 December 2024
All this war illuminates an imperialism whose power is fading
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
Build on military homes renationalisation, campaigners urge
17 December 2024
School children in a classroom
Britain / 17 December 2024
Phillipson rules out England smacking ban
17 December 2024
A woman looking at houses for sale in the window of an estat
Britain / 12 December 2024
Labour to loosen planning rules to get homes built
12 December 2024
Britain / 11 December 2024
‘We can’t build our way out of this crisis,’ Prison Officers Association says
11 December 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to the medi
Britain / 10 December 2024
Reeves orders 5% cuts across all government departments in ‘efficiency drive’
10 December 2024
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) with billionaire proper
Britain / 10 December 2024
Billionaire property developer gifts Reform UK at least a million pounds
10 December 2024
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf, and Refor
Eyes Left / 10 December 2024
Reform UK outpoll Labour as a moment of truth approaches our politics
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
New stalking protections announced
3 December 2024
Palestinian children queue at a food distribution kitchen in
Britain / 28 November 2024
MPs to Lammy: no excuses for Gaza complicity
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
The silent drift into war
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
Palestinians queue for food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, No
Britain / 20 November 2024
Labour should halt arms sales to Israel and sanction its officials to help halt the genocide in Gaza, McDonald tells MPs
20 November 2024
People watch an NBC News livestream showing poll results at
Eyes Left / 13 November 2024
It’s barbarism then — but what kind?
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
Starmer pledges support for Trump and capitalism
6 November 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer giving a speech during an event
Britain / 6 November 2024
Labour loses Newcastle as councillors quit
6 November 2024
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arrives in Downing St
Britain / 4 November 2024
Labour's university tuition fee hike slammed
4 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer giving a speech during the I
Britain / 4 November 2024
Starmer apes Tory rhetoric by claiming migration is security threat equivalent to terrorism
4 November 2024
New Tory leader Kemi Badenoch
Britain / 3 November 2024
Badenoch casts hard-right shadow over politics
3 November 2024
by Andrew Murray Political reporter
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing
Britain / 3 November 2024
Reeves Blames ‘black hole’ for tax U-turn
3 November 2024
By Andrew Murray Political reporter
Republican US presidential candiate Donald Trump (left) and
Eyes Left / 29 October 2024
What should the British left make of the US presidential election?
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
Healey pledges more troops for Estonia
17 October 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes her keynote
Britain / 17 October 2024
Ministers urge Starmer to curb Reeves axe
17 October 2024
Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick ahead
Britain / 17 October 2024
Tory leadership campaign turns ugly
17 October 2024
Palestinians look at the damage after an Israeli strike hit
Britain / 16 October 2024
Labour urged to return £4m as ‘blood money’ linked to Gaza genocide
16 October 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes her keynote
Britain / 16 October 2024
Reeves eyeing welfare cuts as ‘black hole’ expands
16 October 2024
Members of Distant Voices, Christian Concern, the Christian
Britain / 16 October 2024
Disability groups warn against assisted dying law
16 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Britain / 16 October 2024
Labour looking at sanctions on far-right Israeli ministers
16 October 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the media in Downi
Britain / 15 October 2024
Labour planning bosses' insurance hike
15 October 2024
Eyes Left / 15 October 2024
Things going badly for Starmer is our opportunity
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?
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner speaking at the Labour P
Britain / 9 October 2024
Rayner puts forward legislation to protect private tenants from no-fault evictions
9 October 2024
Conservative Party leadership candidate James Cleverly deliv
Britain / 8 October 2024
Cleverly leads Tory leadership race as Jenrick flounders
8 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech duri
Britain / 8 October 2024
Labour polling slumps while Reform surges
8 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to t
Eyes Left / 2 October 2024
From freebie frocks to foreign policy, conference only exposed the cracks in Starmer’s project
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
Jenrick called out over soldiers' kill claims
1 October 2024
Leadership contender Robert Jenrick speaking at a fringe eve
Britain / 30 September 2024
Tories feud over pact with Farage
30 September 2024
Red flags flying for Martyrs Day today in Beijing
Features / 30 September 2024
Assessing Chinese socialism 75 years after its revolution
30 September 2024
ANDREW MURRAY reflects on the achievements and character of socialism with Chinese characteristics
Britain / 24 September 2024
Starmer Offers No Relief From Gloom
24 September 2024
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper delivers her speech during the
Britain / 24 September 2024
Cooper pledges law and order measures
24 September 2024
OUTRAGE AND SOLIDARITY: Supportersof Faiza Shaheen gather to
Features / 24 September 2024
Muslim Vote campaign: ‘Our demands are in line with what ordinary people need’
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
Unite's leader Sharon Graham
Britain / 19 September 2024
Starmer Risks Conference Rebuke on Winter Fuel Cut as Unite plans to force a vote
19 September 2024
Leftwinger Mish Rahman loses seat on national executive
The Bank of England
Britain / 19 September 2024
Bank of England Keeps Interest Squeeze on Economy
19 September 2024
Civil Defence first-responders carry a man who was wounded a
World / 18 September 2024
Campaigners call for sanctions on Israel following its ‘indiscriminate terrorist attack’ on Lebanon
18 September 2024
Trade unionists and protesters form a blockade outside weapo
Britain / 18 September 2024
New report reveals deeply-entrenched influence of arms industry on government policies
18 September 2024
Eyes Left / 18 September 2024
From Trickett’s rebellion to Reform’s rise, welcome to Labour’s post-victory blues
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
Starmer defends moves to cut winter fuel payments
4 September 2024
Robert Jenrick speaking at a Conservative Party leadership c
Britain / 4 September 2024
Jenrick heads Tory leadership poll
4 September 2024
Labour MP Jas Athwal
Eyes Left / 4 September 2024
Slumlords and surge pricing: Thatcher’s legacy alive and kicking in Starmer’s Labour
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
Progressive independent MPs form new commons group
2 September 2024
Kemi Badenoch speaking at a Conservative Party leadership ca
Britain / 2 September 2024
Top Tories told to apologise as they jostle for leadership
2 September 2024
A car burns on Parliament Road, in Middlesbrough, during an
Britain / 29 August 2024
Muslim groups ask Starmer for investigation into far-right riots
29 August 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his speech and press conf
Britain / 29 August 2024
Starmer's poll ratings slump
29 August 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during her visit t
Britain / 28 August 2024
Chancellor pledges to press on with winter fuel squeeze despite risk of public health crisis
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
Starmer endorses new treaty with Germany
28 August 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch p
Britain / 22 August 2024
Rich donors rescue Labour as party membership drops
22 August 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during his visit to Lambeth
Eyes Left / 21 August 2024
The silence of Starmer
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 member of the public at the memorial at the base of Grenfe
Britain / 20 August 2024
Grenfell disaster was ‘a crime’ – firefighters' union says
20 August 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, August 6, 2024
Britain / 12 August 2024
Starmer fails to meet Muslim representatives since far-right riots
12 August 2024
A general view of the front door of No 10 Downing Street, ce
Britain / 12 August 2024
Starmer aides squabble as PM scraps holiday plans
12 August 2024
GREENS APPEAL: The four new Green MPs (L to R) Sian Berry (M
Eyes Left / 10 July 2024
What kind of a parliament and government have we just elected?
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
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during an interview at th
Britain / 9 July 2024
Starmer widens rift with Britain’s Muslims
9 July 2024
Former home secretary Suella Braverman gives a speech at Far
Britain / 9 July 2024
Tory civil war erupts over Braverman rant
9 July 2024
Tony Blair speaking at the Tony Blair Institute for Global C
Britain / 9 July 2024
Blair urges more robots, fewer migrants
9 July 2024
Newly elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech at
Britain / 5 July 2024
Pressure on Starmer to deliver change after election landslide
5 July 2024
Features / 5 July 2024
A failure of a victory for Starmer
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
Britain / 5 July 2024
Labour secures grudging landslide as Tories ousted
5 July 2024
Britain / 4 July 2024
Tory rule ends in Labour landslide
4 July 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer after making a speech durin
Editorial: / 4 July 2024
Turn a change of government into a change in policy - on Palestine above all
4 July 2024
QUESTIONS remain UNANSWERED: Keir Starmer speaks to media du
Eyes Left: Election Special / 3 July 2024
Can a left base be built after the election? The future depends on it
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
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking to members of the media
Britain / 2 July 2024
Lightning strike more likely than Tory win, says Curtice
2 July 2024
GREEN TEAM: Natalie Bennett with supporters
Features / 2 July 2024
‘We have the hope, they have the fear’
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
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaking at a major campaig
Britain / 1 July 2024
Starmer accused of ‘dog whistle’ politics by Tory Home Secretary
1 July 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Redcar and Clev
Britain / 30 June 2024
Sunak dreams of Tory comeback
30 June 2024
A Reform UK supporter in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex in the run-up
Features / 30 June 2024
A view from the ground in Clacton
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 at the Labour headquarters in central London a
Britain / 28 June 2024
Formby backs Feinstein to beat Starmer
28 June 2024
ALL TO PLAY FOR: Jeremy Corbyn poses outside Islington Town
Interview / 28 June 2024
It’s the Masses against the Machine in Islington North
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’
Labour leader Keir Starmer during the BBC Head-to-head debat
Britain / 27 June 2024
Starmer insults Bangladeshi community in new racism row
27 June 2024
Jabu Nala-Hartley (third from right) with campaigners
Britain / 27 June 2024
Oxford candidate stands up for working-class communities
27 June 2024
Campaigners and charities including Show Israel the Red Card
Eyes Left / 26 June 2024
No ceasefire, no vote
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
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during a visit to a bath
Eyes Left / 24 June 2024
The death of the Tories? Let us pray
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
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (left) and Prime Min
Britain / 23 June 2024
Sunak and Starmer unite for war
23 June 2024
Leaders join forces to condemn Farage for comments on Nato expansionism
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer holds a copy of his partyâ€
Eyes Left / 18 June 2024
Starmer’s hollow manifesto rings last gasps of centrism
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
LOCAL HERO: Supporters rally for former Labour candidate Fai
Features / 17 June 2024
Faiza Shaheen won’t back down
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
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and shadow health secretary
Britain / 16 June 2024
Labour and Tories both offering more austerity for the NHS, finds Nuffield Trust
16 June 2024
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer with shadow chancellor
Britain / 13 June 2024
Labour urged to scale up its ambition to change crisis-wracked Britain
13 June 2024
PEOPLE’S CHAMPION: Lorraine Douglas next to the statue of
Features / 13 June 2024
Lettuce Liz flees Norfolk’s red menace
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 speaks during a protest organised by the Rail,
Britain / 12 June 2024
Offer real change, Corbyn tells Labour
12 June 2024
Eyes Left / 12 June 2024
Banking on bigotry and the two-horse race
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
Leader of Reform UK Richard Tice and Nigel Farage during a p
Britain / 10 June 2024
Desperate Tories urge unity with Farage
10 June 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, while speaking with new lo
Britain / 9 June 2024
Starmer is overseeing social cleansing in his constituency, independent left challenger warns
9 June 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and wife, Akshata Murty, attendin
Britain / 7 June 2024
Sunak grovels after disastrous D-Day snub
7 June 2024
Defence Secretary (left) during a visit to view the first pr
Britain / 7 June 2024
Public oppose Labour-Tory war drive
7 June 2024
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (second right) has his pi
Britain / 6 June 2024
Labour legal boss challenged after case dropped
6 June 2024
(left-right) Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, deputy La
Eyes Left: Election Special / 6 June 2024
The cream of Starmer’s crop
6 June 2024
ANDREW MURRAY gives the lowdown on the Labour rightwingers – selected with zero democratic input – attempting to parachute themselves into seats up and down the country
Responding to Faiza Shaheen being blocked from standing as a
Britain / 5 June 2024
Faiza Shaheen to fight for Chingford seat as an Independent
5 June 2024
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives at Islingto
Britain / 5 June 2024
Corbyn challenges Starmer on backing for radical policies
5 June 2024
(left-right) Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, Labour Party l
Britain / 4 June 2024
Starmer's Labour ‘institutionally racist,’ say quitting councillors
4 June 2024
Britain / 4 June 2024
Communists challenge for peace and workers' rights
4 June 2024
George Galloway speaking to the media during a press confere
Features / 4 June 2024
‘Britain’s conscience is not dead’
4 June 2024
As the charismatic rebel candidate for Rochdale GEORGE GALLOWAY sends a remarkable 326 candidates into battle against Labour, Andrew Murray sits down with him to discuss Gaza, Starmer, and the Workers Party’s agenda
Nigel Farage during a press conference to announce that he w
Britain / 3 June 2024
Farage U-turns and decides to stand at the election
3 June 2024
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow defence secr
Britain / 3 June 2024
‘Britain will be fit to fight within the first year of a Labour government’
3 June 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer renews commitment to militarism and Britain's nuclear weapons
Labour leader Keir Starmer at the launch of Scottish Labour'
Britain / 3 June 2024
Labour fears loss of seats over Gaza
3 June 2024
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) has his picture
Britain / 30 May 2024
‘A voice for justice, for peace and socialism’
30 May 2024
Corbyn officially launches campaign to be re-elected in Islington North
Faiza Shaheen with Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to Chingford
Britain / 30 May 2024
Outrage grows after Labour blocks a socialist Muslim candidate from standing
30 May 2024
‘I feel a huge injustice has been done not just to me but to our community,’ Faiza Shaheen says
WE ELECT YOU, OR NOT: Nakba 76 a pro-Palestine demonstration
Eyes Left / 29 May 2024
Don’t mention the war: a worthless election approaches
29 May 2024
We may have candidates here and there to support who have stood up for the people of Palestine, but with both major parties fully in support of Israel’s genocide, this election is a pointless pantomime, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Diane Abbott addressing the People's Assembly Britain is Bro
Britain / 28 May 2024
Starmer lies on Abbott exposed
28 May 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer makes his first keynote spe
Britain / 27 May 2024
Labour makes sabre-rattling a priority
27 May 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issuing a statement outside 10 Do
Britain / 26 May 2024
Get into uniform, Sunak tells teens
26 May 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks with workers during a visi
Britain / 26 May 2024
Unite warns on Labour's ‘bad bosses charter’
26 May 2024
Michael Gove, March 14, 2024
Britain / 26 May 2024
Top Tories flee sinking ship
26 May 2024
Jeremy Corbyn (centre) takes part in a pro-Palestine march i
Britain / 24 May 2024
Corbyn stands for peace and socialism
24 May 2024
Housing in Westminster and Pimlico, London, January 6, 2015
Britain / 24 May 2024
Renters fall victim to Sunak's snap election decision
24 May 2024
Jeremy Corbyn on a recent Palestine solidarity demonstration
Britain / 24 May 2024
Jeremy Corbyn announces candidacy for Islington North
24 May 2024
RMT union pledges backing for former Labour leader's independent bid
Police look on as protesters gather outside the Business and
Britain / 21 May 2024
Battle joined to defend democracy
21 May 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during his visit to
Britain / 21 May 2024
Feinstein launches electoral challenge to Starmer
21 May 2024
Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a protest organised by the Rail,
Britain / 20 May 2024
Labour looking at new Corbyn sanction
20 May 2024
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks to protesters from
Britain / 16 May 2024
Let Corbyn stand, left demands
16 May 2024
(left to right) Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire, Labour
Britain / 15 May 2024
Labour commits to workers' rights package
15 May 2024
Eyes Left / 15 May 2024
Oddly enough, the Prime Minister is right
15 May 2024
Even if his rationale is awry, Sunak is correct to say that Britain is entering an increasingly dangerous era, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to Do
Britain / 14 May 2024
Labour commits to workers' rights plan after union talks
14 May 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer doing media interviews at Blackpo
Britain / 8 May 2024
Unions to meet Starmer over workers' rights fears
8 May 2024
Houses, August 19, 2014
Britain / 8 May 2024
Build more social housing, MPs tell ministers
8 May 2024
People taking part in Stop the Genocide in Gaza national dem
Britain / 7 May 2024
Act to stop Israel, MPs tell government
7 May 2024
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking about the economy a
Britain / 7 May 2024
Reeves told to put people above corporate interests after giving another business-friendly speech
7 May 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking at the Society of Editor
Britain / 7 May 2024
Squabbling Tories swap insults over electoral disaster
7 May 2024
A ballot box arrives during the count for the Blackpool Sout
Britain / 3 May 2024
Sunak clings on as Tory vote crashes
3 May 2024
Lord Ben Houchen with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Teesside
Britain / 3 May 2024
Labour holds on to Tyne, loses out on Tees
3 May 2024
Newly elected Labour MP Chris Webb, with Labour leader Keir
Britain / 3 May 2024
Labour win Blackpool South in blow to Sunak
3 May 2024
PICK YOUR COLOUR: Sadiq Khan provides a fitting allegory for
Eyes Left / 1 May 2024
A fog of pessimism hangs over the polls
1 May 2024
It is no surprise that enthusiasm for elections right now is in short supply when no major party is offering change — we should welcome then, any entity that does centre socialism and the working class, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Former deputy first minister of Scotland John Swinney speaki
Britain / 30 April 2024
John Swinney appears favourite for SNP leadership
30 April 2024
George Galloway speaking to the media during a press confere
Britain / 30 April 2024
Galloway's Workers Party to stand candidates everywhere in challenge to Labour
30 April 2024
Frank Field MP in Westminster, London, August 30, 2018
Britain / 24 April 2024
Tributed Paid to Frank Field, MP and Poverty Campaigner
24 April 2024
Rishi Sunak speaks during a press conference in Downing Stre
Britain / 17 April 2024
Parliament deadlocked over Rwanda deportations
17 April 2024
Israeli soldiers move on the top of a tank near the Israeli-
Britain / 17 April 2024
More aid for Gaza and fewer weapons for Israel, MPs demand
17 April 2024
WARMONGERS GATHER: British Foreign Secretary David Cameron w
Eyes Left / 17 April 2024
Signs point to world war: what next?
17 April 2024
The rising price of gold is a good indicator that, despite the protestations of Western leaders, we are heading towards a bigger, wider war. Closing our eyes and focusing on domestic issues is not an option, warns ANDREW MURRAY
Claudia Webbe
Features / 15 April 2024
‘This is a community that suffers a lot of hate and lives in poverty’
15 April 2024
Andrew Murray catches up with Leicester East MP CLAUDIA WEBBE, who will be standing as an independent in a city stricken by rapacious fashion-brand employers, sectarian frictions and urban decay – a city where principled socialism is more valuable than ever
People taking part in Stop the Genocide in Gaza national dem
Eyes Left / 2 April 2024
The rise of the independents demands we form a united front
2 April 2024
Hundreds of thousands of Labour members are leaving, councillors are resigning, and numerous former Labour MPs and left-wing newcomers are running against Starmer’s party — let us all unite, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel
Britain / 26 March 2024
Fears grow that up to 40 Labour parliamentary selections may have been rigged
26 March 2024
Owen Jones, October 19, 2022
Britain / 21 March 2024
Owen Jones breaks with Labour and backs electoral challenge to the party
21 March 2024
Newly-defected former Conservative deputy chairman Lee Ander
Eyes Left / 20 March 2024
What to make of Lee Anderson’s political trajectory?
20 March 2024
While the Labour-turned-Tory-turned-Reform UK politician might hold deeply objectionable views, there are lessons to be drawn about class discontent and how socialist leadership should respond, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Communities secretary, Michael Gove, February 11, 2024
Britain / 14 March 2024
Gove's ‘anti-extremism’ drive puts democracy at risk, campaigners warn
14 March 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt leaves 11 Downing St
Britain / 6 March 2024
Hunt gambles on tax as services crumble
6 March 2024
JUST CAUSE: A Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally outside th
Eyes Left / 6 March 2024
Rochdale has shown what can be done
6 March 2024
Sunak’s quivering, late-night address, expressing dire concerns over George Galloway’s win in Rochdale, unveils a profound unease within the elite — good. Now let's build from here, writes ANDREW MURRAY
George Galloway holds a rally at his Rochdale Headquarters a
Britain / 1 March 2024
‘This is for Gaza’: Galloway sweeps to victory in Rochdale
1 March 2024
Elizabeth Tower, part of the Palace of Westminster and a Met
Britain / 29 February 2024
Campaigners slam Sunak's protest clampdown
29 February 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer during a visit to Siemens Trainca
Britain / 29 February 2024
Labour campaign chief failed to declare £700k in donations
29 February 2024
People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London,
Britain / 28 February 2024
We keep marching for Gaza, Cleverly told
28 February 2024
Britain / 28 February 2024
Cuts cost lives, RMT warns MPs
28 February 2024
A Palestinian stands on top of a mosque destroyed in an Isra
Britain / 27 February 2024
Labour suspends councillors for backing calls for Gaza ceasefire
27 February 2024
Alan Bates
Britain / 27 February 2024
Take compensation responsibility away from 'dead duck' Post Office, says Alan Bates
27 February 2024
Horizon scandal victim calls for sell-off as scandal grinds on
People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally ou
Britain / 22 February 2024
Gaza crisis threatens commons Speaker
22 February 2024
Palestine supporters protest outside the Labour Party's HQ d
Britain / 21 February 2024
Commons chaos dishonours Gaza suffering
21 February 2024
Eyes Left / 21 February 2024
A right Balls-up as Ed draws the line on anti-semitism hypocrisy
21 February 2024
The suspension of Labour MP Graham Jones over his mild rebuke of Israel has proved a bridge too far, even for those supporting the Starmer path to power — what on Earth is going on here, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Palestinians search for survivors after an Israeli airstrike
Britain / 20 February 2024
Starmer wobbles on Gaza under protest pressure
20 February 2024
A woman walks past a sign for a polling station location in
Features / 17 February 2024
From Rochdale to Gaza…
17 February 2024
ANDREW MURRAY surveys the political landscape in one of Britain’s most controversial by-elections in years, and talks to the frontrunner – George Galloway – about the ‘perfect storm’ brewing for Labour
SPEAKING OUT: A file photo of protesters calling for an end
Features / 13 February 2024
We must unite against the new wave of political policing
13 February 2024
All shades of red must stand in total solidarity with any person or group, from the CPGBM-L to Socialist Appeal, that is facing the unprecedented attack on left-wing speech that began over the Gaza protests, demands ANDREW MURRAY
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaking at the launch of the Lab
Britain / 8 February 2024
Outrage as Starmer drops green pledges
8 February 2024
Police during an Extinction Rebellion demonstration blocking
Britain / 8 February 2024
‘More culture war nonsense from the government as children go hungry and the planet burns’
8 February 2024
Right to protest comes under fresh attack as Tories unveil new measures and fines
A voter placing a ballot paper in the ballot box at the poll
Britain / 7 February 2024
Young people increasingly unlikely to vote in general election, survey finds
7 February 2024
Brianna Ghey's mother Esther Ghey making a statement to the
Britain / 7 February 2024
PM clashes with Sir Keir on trans issues in PMQ spat
7 February 2024
Secretary of State for Defence Grant Shapps, speaks to Chief
Eyes Left / 7 February 2024
Continual war is the backdrop to British politics
7 February 2024
ANDREW MURRAY is surprised by the latest comments by General Sir Patrick Sanders who seems not to have noticed Britain’s military meddling around the world over the last 25 years
Former prime minister Liz Truss during the launch of the Pop
Britain / 6 February 2024
Truss summons ‘Secret Tories’ to fight Davos and Left
6 February 2024
Piers Morgan filming in front of the door to 10 Downing Stre
Britain / 6 February 2024
Sunak reneges on Piers Morgan Rwanda bet
6 February 2024
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves addressing 400 business lead
Britain / 1 February 2024
Labour throws another bone to big businesses with tax pledge
1 February 2024
Labour MP Apsana Begum addressing the People's Assembly Brit
Britain / 1 February 2024
Apsana Begum slams Labour over her treatment
1 February 2024
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, November 19, 2023
Britain / 31 January 2024
Shadow chancellor confirms Labour would not reintroduce curbs on bankers’ bonuses
31 January 2024
Mick Lynch, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Tran
Britain / 30 January 2024
RMT announce fresh rail strikes amid rolling industrial action by drivers
30 January 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during a TV interview in f
Britain / 24 January 2024
Tories descended further into turmoil as hard right launches fresh plots against Sunak
24 January 2024
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombing and invasion o
Britain / 24 January 2024
Labour MP tells Sunak he has ‘the blood of thousands of innocent people’ on his hands
24 January 2024
The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free Sta
Eyes Left / 24 January 2024
Leninism lives! And so does MacDonaldism…
24 January 2024
ANDREW MURRAY turns an eye to one hundred years ago, when, as Lenin died, the first Labour leadership entered government in Britain
A Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4 takes off to carry out air st
Britain / 23 January 2024
Britain condemned for launching ‘largest raid so far on Yemen’
23 January 2024
‘The violent repercussions of Israel’s war on Gaza are spreading across the Middle East, threatening a much wider conflict,’ Stop the War says
Rishi Sunak updates MPs over the Red Sea shipping attacks in
Britain / 15 January 2024
MORE WAR
15 January 2024
Sunak defends bombing Yemen and signals huge rise in military spending as left MPs warn of escalation risk
Labour leader Keir Starmer leaving BBC Broadcasting House in
Britain / 15 January 2024
Reform pushes Labour toward landslide
15 January 2024
A post office van in Aldwych, central London, January 11, 20
Britain / 11 January 2024
Politicians scramble to keep clear as fallout from Post Office scandal goes on
11 January 2024
Post Office investigator denies acting like ‘mafia gangster’ in pursuit of wrongly suspected subpostmasters.
Former post office workers celebrate outside the Royal Court
Britain / 10 January 2024
Parliament to rush through legislation exonerating Post Office Horizon scandal victims
10 January 2024
Injured Palestinians arrive at al-Shifa Hospital following I
Britain / 10 January 2024
Campaigners condemn revelation Sir Keir is ‘parroting Washington’s line’ on the Gaza crisis
10 January 2024
Protesters during a Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign d
Eyes Left / 10 January 2024
The ‘pay to protest’ scheme is laughable
10 January 2024
The Establishment’s latest crackpot authoritarian idea is to try and get protest organisers to foot the bill for policing protests — that’s right: pay the police ourselves. This isn’t going to happen, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Paula Vennells (right), then Post Office chief executive wit
Britain / 9 January 2024
Former Post Office boss Vennells returns gong as Horizon scandal rocks the Establishment
9 January 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer gives a speech at the Natio
Britain / 4 January 2024
Project Hopeless: Starmer ducks change challenge
4 January 2024
Anrew Windsor departs Westminster Abbey, London, following t
Britain / 4 January 2024
Prince Andrew hit by new groping claims
4 January 2024
Jeremy Miles at the Joint Ministerial Council (European Nego
Britain / 2 January 2024
Welsh Labour contender pledges action on NHS and economy
2 January 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (far right) visits the Tapa N
Britain / 2 January 2024
Sir Keir risks risks destroying the Labour Party, Jon Cruddas MP warns
2 January 2024
A person walking past Finedon Community Centre in Wellingbor
Britain / 20 December 2023
Another by-election nightmare for Sunak after Tory MP is forced to face the electorate
20 December 2023
People demonstrate outside the constituency office of Labour
Britain / 20 December 2023
Labour Muslim Network urges Sir Kier not to meet with controversial Israeli ambassador
20 December 2023
Michelle Mone ahead of the State Opening of Parliament by El
Britain / 19 December 2023
Lingerie millionaire Lady Mone attacks ministers over PPE deals, keeping spotlight on Tory sleaze
19 December 2023
Protesters on the Embankment during a pro-Palestine march ,
Britain / 19 December 2023
Corbyn leads calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Commons debate
19 December 2023
Israeli soldiers prepare to enter the Gaza Strip, at a stagi
Britain / 13 December 2023
Labour declines to say if it backs Tory government’s abstention on key UN Gaza ceasefire vote
13 December 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a press conference in the
Britain / 13 December 2023
Sunak's Rwanda plan still threatened despite parliamentary vote victory
13 December 2023
Features / 13 December 2023
Watching the Tory meltdown first-hand
13 December 2023
In his much-delayed debut column from Parliament, ANDREW MURRAY watches the rot set in at the top, after 13 years of venal mayhem
BETRAYED: Bishop James Jones reading the report to family me
1989 disaster / 6 December 2023
Tories refuse to back Hillsborough law
6 December 2023
BAD NEWS: Jeremy Hunt
Finance / 6 December 2023
Councils warn of looming bankruptcy wave
6 December 2023
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the Resolut
Britain / 4 December 2023
Starmer offers more austerity pain for Britain
4 December 2023
Labour ‘won't turn on spending taps’ leader says in speech to woo big business 
Screen grab from the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Live Stream of form
Britain / 30 November 2023
Hancock attacks ‘toxic’ Cummings at Covid inquiry
30 November 2023
There was no regime so obnoxious, no tyrant too murderous, f
Obituary / 30 November 2023
Kissinger: a war criminal who served US imperialism
30 November 2023
Celebrated for his diplomacy, especially over China, his true face was that of a callous murderer with the blood of millions on his hands, writes ANDREW MURRAY
MAN WITH LITTLE PLAN
Economy / 29 November 2023
OECD downgrade Britain's economic prospects
29 November 2023
LONG-LASTING: Revellers wave CPC flags during a parade comme
Eyes Left / 29 November 2023
Rejoice: China has now outlasted the USSR
29 November 2023
Communist rule in China is now 74 years old — as well as analysing how this historic milestone was achieved where the Soviet Union failed, socialists across the world should allow ourselves a celebration too, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Secretary of State for Levelling Up Michael Gove arrives to
Britain / 28 November 2023
Gove offers first government apology for pandemic chaos
28 November 2023
Labour MP Zarah Sultana, speaks during a protest in Whitehal
Britain / 21 November 2023
Labour needs independent probe into Islamophobia, Labour Muslim Network says
21 November 2023
Call follows Zarah Sultana's claim that the party operates a hierarchy of racism
People take part in a Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Eyes Left / 14 November 2023
Never underestimate people power 
14 November 2023
Hundreds of thousands hitting the streets has led to Braverman getting the boot and serious cracks appearing in the Starmerite edifice – what happens next is a page yet to be written, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a briefing before att
Britain / 9 November 2023
Sunak faces mounting calls to give Braverman the boot
9 November 2023
Home Secretary under fire over news column slurs
Charles Windsor during the State Opening of Parliament in th
Britain / 7 November 2023
Tories have run out of ideas to confront country's crisis, campaigners and trade unions say
7 November 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer with Scottish Labour leader A
Britain / 2 November 2023
Scottish Labour leader slams Sir Keir's lack of ‘humanity and empathy’ over Gaza crisis
2 November 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomes US Vice-President Kamala
Britain / 2 November 2023
Labour pledges to strictly regulate AI technology
2 November 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech on the situ
Britain / 1 November 2023
Resistance mounts against Starmer's position on Gaza
1 November 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech on the situ
Britain / 31 October 2023
Starmer stumbles on Gaza
31 October 2023
Labour leader refuses to back ceasefire despite revolt
Former chief adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Domini
Britain / 31 October 2023
Boris Johnson had ‘wrong skill set’ for Covid crisis top aide admits 
31 October 2023
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip
Features / 31 October 2023
Why the West fears ceasefires
31 October 2023
The demand for peace reveals much about those who reject it — the imperialist politicians who know war is the heartbeat of Western capitalism, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Palestinians evacuate wounded from a building destroyed in I
Britain / 19 October 2023
Unite planning demonstration for peace in the Middle East
19 October 2023
A Palestinian rushes his child wounded in the Israeli bombar
Britain / 19 October 2023
Sir Keir attempts to claw back credibility with Muslim voters and social justice campaigners
19 October 2023
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer
Britain / 18 October 2023
Labour-supporting Muslims tell Starmer to step down
18 October 2023
Thousands sign letter of no confidence as leader continues to back Israeli war crimes
A Palestinian man carries a blanket covering the remains of
Britain / 17 October 2023
Labour lurches toward meltdown over Sir Keir's backing of Israeli war crimes
17 October 2023
Eyes Left / 17 October 2023
A fatuous commitment to ‘change’ unites the Establishment
17 October 2023
Somehow both the Tories and Labour are keeping a straight face while proclaiming themselves the parties of ‘change’ at the next election, when they offer almost the exact opposite, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting speaking during the La
Labour Party Conference 2023 / 11 October 2023
Streeting insists NHS must change or go bust
11 October 2023
An activist stands with Sir Keir after sprinkling him with g
Labour Party Conference 2023 / 10 October 2023
Sir Keir offers up change without cash and rebuilding without radicalism
10 October 2023
The Afghan flag
Britain / 9 October 2023
Britain must come clean about war crimes in Afghanistan, anti-war campaigners tell inquiry
9 October 2023
Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaks at the Labou
Labour Party Conference 2023 / 9 October 2023
Reeves doesn't offer enough change, campaigners say
9 October 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers his keynote speech at th
Conservative Party Conference 2023 / 4 October 2023
‘No plan nor vision for fixing broken Britain’
4 October 2023
Sunak's speech offers ‘nothing to tackle the housing crisis, low wages, insecure work, poverty-level benefits and public services stretched to breaking point’
Home Secretary, Suella Braverman delivers her keynote speech
Conservative Party Conference 2023 / 3 October 2023
‘Utterly despicable’
3 October 2023
Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed for speech ‘straight out of the far-right playbook’ and for emulating Enoch Powell
A train passes the HS2 construction site in Euston, London
Eyes Left / 3 October 2023
HS2: the great property robbery
3 October 2023
The stifling power of property rights blocks the track to modernisation in Britain, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Liz Truss gives a speech on the economy at the Institute for
Conservative Party Conference 2023 / 2 October 2023
Tory fanatics call for more extreme policies at packed fringe meeting
2 October 2023
Transport Secretary Mark Harper during the Conservative Part
Conservative Party Conference 2023 / 2 October 2023
Transport secretary gives motorists green light to drive faster
2 October 2023
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologises for the ev
Exclusive / 28 September 2023
Former SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka was given shelter in Britain after WWII
28 September 2023
Britain / 28 September 2023
May the Farce Be with You: Star Wars Sunak ducks HS2 answers
28 September 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer at Selby football club, North
Editorial / 27 September 2023
Starmer warned against Brexit backpedalling
27 September 2023
Labour mayors (left to right) Andy Burnham Mayor of Greater
Britain / 27 September 2023
Labour mayors join forces to urge Sunak to stay on track with HS2
27 September 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel
Britain / 26 September 2023
Sweeping attacks on Labour Party democracy set to be pushed through
26 September 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech on the plans fo
Britain / 21 September 2023
Unions warn Sunak's green U-turns mask just transition failings
21 September 2023
Britain / 21 September 2023
Britain has become a more tolerant place, surveys say
21 September 2023
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaking during a Q&A session at
Britain / 20 September 2023
Sunak besieged on all sides over his net-zero policy climbdown
20 September 2023
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer holding an ‘In Conversation
Britain / 20 September 2023
Sir Keir's popularity plummets, polling shows
20 September 2023
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins a demonstration in
Eyes Left / 20 September 2023
Corbynism was right: war is a domestic issue
20 September 2023
Those who feel that progressive policies on things like the welfare state mean we can ignore the overseas crimes of Western foreign policy have always been dangerously wrong, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Community (EPC) Summit at Mimi Castle in Bulboaca near Chisi
Britain / 19 September 2023
Sir Keir meets with Macron to discuss his controversial plan to stop refugees crossing the Channel
19 September 2023
Liz Truss gives a speech on the economy at the Institute for
Britain / 19 September 2023
Truss plunges Tories into new crisis
19 September 2023
TACTICAL ALLIANCE: (From left) Brazil’s President Luiz Ina
Eyes Left / 5 September 2023
Brics: necessary, exciting, but ultimately limited
5 September 2023
The need to balance the economic domination of the US has led to a coalition of emerging economies — but politically, it is far less coherent than the G7. That will be a problem, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Eyes Left / 22 August 2023
Is the Labour Party the party of labour?
22 August 2023
The unions might appear to have a huge amount of power over the Labour Party, but in practice, as Blair showed, they do not. Working-class politics cannot be restricted to changing that, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Conservative party leadership contender Boris Johnson with s
Book Review / 13 August 2023
Dr Who and the Tory party
13 August 2023
ANDREW MURRAY muses on the Tory Party’s capacity to reincarnate itself despite all rumours of its decline, and doubts the conclusions of a rare analysis from the left
George Galloway celebrates his win as Respect MP in the Brad
EYES LEFT / 26 July 2023
The old ‘new parties’ of the left
26 July 2023
As the prospect of an alternative to Labour looms thanks to Keir Starmer’s purge of leftwingers, ANDREW MURRAY reviews the fortunes of similar attempts made in the last 30 years
THE WORD IS OUT: A City worker walks past an anti-capitalist
Eyes Left / 12 July 2023
Even the right hopes for a better left
12 July 2023
Conservatives and centrists alike are recognising that the free-market system they’ve promoted doesn’t work; the goal is seemingly open, should we choose to kick the ball, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Contemporary satirical cartoon The Demon of Death by Dublin
Books / 9 June 2023
The Great Unrest, then and now
9 June 2023
ANDREW MURRAY applauds a thorough history of the great pre-WWI strike wave, and the resonances it has with the present day
UNDIMINISHED APPEAL: Jeremy Corbyn with St Mungo's workers a
Features / 9 June 2023
The ascent and fall of Corbynism
9 June 2023
Recognising the true nature of the Parliamentary Labour Party and its 100-year commitment to imperialism is crucial to understanding why it proved so resistant to change from within during the years of Corbyn’s leadership, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Eyes Left / 30 May 2023
Is the labour movement consensus shifting on Ukraine?
30 May 2023
In a moment of political clarity, the UCU voted against deepening the conflict in Ukraine and committed itself to anti-war campaigning. This is a promising sign — now we need the other unions, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Eyes Left / 16 May 2023
No landslide in sight for ‘Blairism on steroids’
16 May 2023
The local election results show no political vision is emerging to capture hearts and minds – Labour is simply waiting for the other parties to become even less appealing, writes ANDREW MURRAY
'Commentators are starting to express concern at the absence
EYES LEFT / 2 May 2023
Keir Starmer and the mystery of the missing policies 
2 May 2023
Will a forthcoming conference on ‘national conservatism’ provide some inspiration for the hapless Labour leader, wonders ANDREW MURRAY
Ukrainian soldiers during training at the frontline in Donet
EYES LEFT / 18 April 2023
The hurdles facing the peace movement in Britain
18 April 2023
Winning a public hearing for arguments against the war in Ukraine is difficult for a number of reasons – but the ground is starting to shift, and our energies must be directed towards halting the conflict as an urgent priority, says ANDREW MURRAY
Should left-wing Labour members avoid risking expulsion to '
EYES LEFT / 4 April 2023
The barring of Jeremy Corbyn: what next for the left?
4 April 2023
Two main strands of thinking have emerged since news of Starmer preventing the former Labour leader standing for the party again. ANDREW MURRAY offers some suggestions that might help socialists to regroup and develop a revived strategy
This century, the 'bring back the empire' brigade had its wa
Eyes Left / 22 March 2023
The British empire: culture war and actual war
22 March 2023
The flurry of criticism and counter-outrage over the classical colonial era is no mere academic matter, warns ANDREW MURRAY: what is being debated is whether fresh imperial slaughter can be sold to the public
Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn joins members of th
Eyes Left / 8 March 2023
How best to break the silence over Corbyn’s ejection?
8 March 2023
ANDREW MURRAY notes the muted response to the symbolic destruction of the left through the defenestration of its iconic recent leader — but advises a fight within the Labour Party itself is now the best way forward
Mourners at a funeral for a Ukrainian soldier
Features / 22 February 2023
Peace means calling for a negotiated settlement in Ukraine
22 February 2023
While our leaders want to fight a proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian, the masses in the West must take to the streets and demand an end to this appalling conflict, writes ANDREW MURRAY
COMMON PROSPERITY: Assembly and testing of fibre optics
Books / 17 February 2023
China’s route to advanced socialism
17 February 2023
ANDREW MURRAY recommends that rare thing - a study of the country’s economy that comes from China
Features / 15 February 2023
Nato: an aggressive alliance we must openly oppose 
15 February 2023
The hawkish Labour leadership’s ban on criticising the modern world’s most belligerent, blood-drenched military alliance only confirms that we must – and call for its dissolution, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Eyes Left / 7 February 2023
Words of wisdom from the bourgeoisie
7 February 2023
Capitalism is in crisis – as even the Telegraph now warns, writes ANDREW MURRAY
PRIVILEGE: The World Economic Forum took place in Davos from
Eyes Left / 24 January 2023
Davos and democracy
24 January 2023
ANDREW MURRAY casts a look, via the pages of the FT, at what the great and not-so-good have been concerned about at the elite Switzerland gathering
Prince Harry in Helmand, presumably deciding whether to add
Eyes Left / 10 January 2023
Little bread and a depressing royal circus
10 January 2023
The traditional prescription to stave off revolt looks increasingly unfit for purpose — whether a socialist revolution is near or not, Elizabeth II's funeral will surely be the last monarchist outpouring of significant size, writes ANDREW MURRAY
New tombs in a cemetery in Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest
EYES LEFT / 27 December 2022
Peace should be our priority for the new year
27 December 2022
The anti-war movement needs to assert its deeper solution to the imperialist agenda of endless conflict, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Crowds gather in London Trafalgar Square as Willie Gallacher
EYES LEFT / 13 December 2022
The Labour Party and Rajani Palme Dutt
13 December 2022
In a 1950 paper by one of the Communist Party’s leading Marxist lights, ANDREW MURRAY discovers a resonance between the class questions beleaguering Labour 70 years ago and the situation today
BT employees including emergency call handlers take part in
Review / 2 December 2022
The Fight of Our Lives – trade unions in the crisis of capitalism published  by the Communist Party of Britain £2
2 December 2022
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, speaking at the Centre for E
Eyes Left / 29 November 2022
Who will stand up for Brexit?
29 November 2022
It is no surprise that the austerity-addicted Tories have not used Britain’s exit from the EU to improve our lot — but as pro-Brussels grumbles of disquiet grow to a roar, is the left ready to take up the cause, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Eyes Left / 15 November 2022
Deselected, disowned, cast out: why Starmer keeps up his war on the left
15 November 2022
As the prospect of a Labour government looks likely — according to the polls at least — ANDREW MURRAY explains why the party leadership are still hell-bent on defenestrating the remaining left-wing MPs
An RAF F-35B Lightning stealth jet (left) alongside a United
Features / 5 November 2022
Union support for increased defence spending is a terrible mistake
5 November 2022
The idea that we can boost manufacturing by demanding the government builds its bombs in Britain is wrong on many levels — not least by allowing the Tories to divert public spending from welfare to warfare, writes ANDREW MURRAY
EYES LEFT / 1 November 2022
Sheffield Central, beware
1 November 2022
ANDREW MURRAY warns against the menacing prospect of Paul Mason standing for Parliament
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer congratulates deputy le
Eyes Left / 5 October 2022
Labour: the beatings will continue even if morale improves
5 October 2022
Despite a healthy poll lead, there are no signs of a let up in internal machinations against the left and the membership at large — that's because party democracy is the last thing Starmer wants if Labour wins power, writes ANDREW MURRAY
INTERVIEW / 26 September 2022
Overcoming the City: socialism in Britain
26 September 2022
Speaking to Ben Chacko, ANDREW MURRAY outlines the themes of his new book, addressing the unique roadblocks the British left faces thanks to the dominance of finance capital — and what it will take to turn things around
ELECTORAL LIABILITY? Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks to jour
EYES LEFT / 20 September 2022
Neoliberals in the driving seat
20 September 2022
New PM Liz Truss is even more intent on waging class war than her predecessors – but will her aggressive approach come unstuck as a range of pressures mount, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Features / 6 September 2022
Liz Truss’s tenure beckons in a period of darkness
6 September 2022
The new administration could prove to be the most reactionary since Thatcher, especially if it decides the election is already lost and tries and do as much damage in the name of the market as possible on the way out, warns ANDREW MURRAY
Features / 31 August 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev (March 2 1931 – August 30 2022)
31 August 2022
Last leader of the Soviet Union prior to its collapse in 1991
BEYOND SOLIDARITY: Jeremy Corbyn (2nd left), Zarah Sultana,
Eyes Left / 24 August 2022
If the working class is back, a united left fightback is all the more essential
24 August 2022
Enough is Enough has given the left a tremendous shot in the arm, says ANDREW MURRAY – but unity across campaigns and unions is the only way to deliver success
DEEPLY INSIGHTFUL: Martin Forde QC (inset)
Eyes Left / 21 July 2022
The Forde report: what has changed?
21 July 2022
Keir Starmer has claimed that the debilitating factionalism revealed in the 138-page inquiry is over — if so, that is only because the worst offenders are now in full control of Labour. We must break the cycle, writes ANDREW MURRAY
‘MASS STUPIDITY’: Vote Leave supporters Clacton-on-Sea i
BOOKS / 17 July 2022
Taking class out of history’s narrative
17 July 2022
An unfocused approach to Britain’s last 200 years offers no innovative understanding, writes ANDREW MURRAY
A BIT RICH: Plutocrat Rishi Sunak wants to become PM
Eyes Left with Andrew Murray / 12 July 2022
The race to succeed Johnson reveals strategic divisions in Britain's ruling class
12 July 2022
EYES LEFT / 28 June 2022
A class reassertion
28 June 2022
The RMT is really striking a chord with the public – the Labour Party, not so much, says ANDREW MURRAY
UNION POWER: Protest outside Maritime House, Dover, after P&
Opinion / 14 June 2022
‘High inflation and falling incomes are a particularly noxious combination’
14 June 2022
The law matters but it does not matter as much as organised power on the shopfloor, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Eyes Left / 31 May 2022
The Britain Project: New Labour, old failure
31 May 2022
Tony Blair is assembling a crack squad of out-of-work MPs from across the centrist spectrum – giving life to the lie that what people want is less political innovation, not more. Starmer need not worry just yet, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Under Sir Keir Starmer Labour got 5 per cent less than it w
Eyes Left / 17 May 2022
The Starmer era: a study in failure
17 May 2022
Labour now faces three options — a liberal alliance with the Greens and Lib Dems, a leadership challenge that may well not go to the left — or gathering together the remaining socialist forces in the party to fight for policies, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Anna Shevchenko, 35, waters the few flowers that survived in
EYES LEFT / 3 May 2022
Peace is far less fanciful than a Russian defeat
3 May 2022
With Washington and London leading the charge for escalation in Ukraine, it’s up to the anti-war movement, working with trade unions and others, to lead the push for peace, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Boris Johnson’s problem is that for him life seems to be o
Eyes Left / 19 April 2022
As Boris falters, boredom is no alternative
19 April 2022
ANDREW MURRAY looks at Starmer’s ‘wait-and-wait-some-more’ tactics, the reassuring flop that was the pro-war, pro-Nato demo in London, and Piers Morgan’s lack of perspective when it comes to who wields real power in ‘cancel culture’
President Zelensky has now voiced concerns about Ukrainian l
Eyes Left / 5 April 2022
The last thing we need is a long war
5 April 2022
There is no point in fantasising about a categorical defeat for Putin when even Zelensky has said that he isn't ready for Nato to use the Ukraine conflict to drain Russia — let's hope for a quick peace, writes ANDREW MURRAY
The forces of law and order were quick to protect the proper
Eyes Left / 22 March 2022
The left needs to find its voice against war
22 March 2022
Much of the left has become terrified even to mention the words ‘Nato’ – but amid heightening tensions, it’s more important than ever to speak up, says ANDREW MURRAY
Features / 18 March 2022
Cynical power play lies behind the war in Ukraine
18 March 2022
Beyond an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of Russian troops, a negotiated settlement is needed which must include the abandonment of Nato membership for Ukraine, writes ANDREW MURRAY of Stop the War
A Ukrainian soldier walks past the wreck of a Russian Su-34
Eyes Left / 9 March 2022
The cold war is back but the USSR is not
9 March 2022
The rise of Russia as a belligerent military power has nothing to do with the goals of the Soviet Union — as far-fetched as it may seem right now, we must stick to anti-war, internationalist principle and oppose both Nato and Putin, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Eyes Left / 22 February 2022
Starmer adopts Cold War rhetoric
22 February 2022
ANDREW MURRAY dissects Keir Starmer proclivity for subservience to the Establishment's attitudes in the Ukraine crisis
Features / 14 February 2022
Hornsey & Wood Green Labour: fighting anti-semitism or faction fighting?
14 February 2022
ANDREW MURRAY reports on an attempt to no-platform a Jewish speaker in one of Labour's north London strongholds as this proxy war between the left and right of the party rumbles on
Eyes Left / 8 February 2022
Ignoring the light at the end of the tunnel
8 February 2022
Instead of cutting wages and ‘tightening our belts,’ the obvious answer to the current crisis is to nationalise the energy market and only ‘squeeze’ corporate profits at the top, writes ANDREW MURRAY in the first of a new regular column
DIALOGUE FOR PEACE: Richard Nixon (right) meets Leonid Brezh
Book Review / 16 December 2021
Forgotten Soviet leader restored for posterity
16 December 2021
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a book that rescues Leonid Brezhnev and his time in government from undeserved oblivion
NATION INTO BEING: (Below) Mao Zedong proclaims the Peopleâ€
BOOKS / 4 February 2021
A year that changed China and the world
4 February 2021
ANDREW MURRAY recommends a book on the 1949 victory of the communist revolution which transformed the country and impacted on national liberation movements globally
Book Review / 5 November 2020
The life of the young Stalin in every conceivable context
5 November 2020
Stalin emerges from this book as unremarkable, but his discipline and aptitude as a practical worker commended him to Lenin, who was repaid with unflinching political loyalty, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Books / 2 February 2020
The battle for post-Brexit Britain can be won
2 February 2020
A new book underlines why there are grounds for left optimism now we have left the EU, says ANDREW MURRAY
Book Review / 8 October 2019
Corbynism from Below, edited by Mark Perryman
8 October 2019
Stimulating perspectives on where grassroots ‘Corbynism’ goes next in challenging times