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An excavator removes rubble as a firefighter sprays water on smoldering debris at the site of a strike that destroyed half of the Khorasaniha Synagogue and nearby residential buildings in Tehran, Iran, April 7, 2026
Middle East / 14 April 2026
14 April 2026

From Vietnam to Iran, US leaders repeat a failed strategy of terror bombing – one that history shows cannot break a determined, resilient society, says DYLAN MURPHY

CRISIS LOOMING: Fishing boats dot the sea as cargo ships, in the background, sail through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz off the United Arab Emirates, Friday March 27 2026
Features / 9 April 2026
9 April 2026

Fertiliser chaos triggered by Gulf conflict could send prices soaring and leave millions facing devastating hunger, writes DYLAN MURPHY

STARK REALITIES: Crips Against Cuts Portsmouth protest, in April 2025, as benefits applications are bureaucratic and often unfairly denied / Pic: Tim Sheerman-Chase/CC
Features / 27 March 2026
27 March 2026

DYLAN MURPHY looks at how Labour is breaking its pledge to protect the disabled and vulnerable

Austerity / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY

A Universal Credit sign on a door of a job centre plus in east London
Features / 8 January 2026
8 January 2026

Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports

A GRAVE SENSE OF URGENCY: Bernie Sanders heads to the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington on Monday
Features / 14 November 2025
14 November 2025

DYLAN MURPHY focuses on the big tech oligarchs’ war against workers and how AI and robotics could destroy 100 million US jobs by 2035

An aerial view of a container port is seen in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, on June 6, 2024
Features / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025

The move to restrict exports of the important rare earth metals that China has a 90% monopoly on has provoked Trump to declare a 100% tariff on Chinese exports and other retaliatory measures, reports DYLAN MURPHY

PRECURSOR TO CABLE STREET: The crowd at Holbeck Moor with police cavalry; and (below) Oswald Mosley ranting into a microphone in 1936
Features / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

We must remember how the CPGB led anti-fascist movement defeated Mosley’s BUF in September 1936 and apply the lessons of mass mobilisation and open, unapologetic confrontation to the rise of the far right today, writes DYLAN MURPHY

A Universal Credit sign on a door of a job centre plus in ea
Features / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025

A new report from the Citizens Advice destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY

Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Features / 20 August 2025
20 August 2025

Corbyn and Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ represents the first attempt at mass socialist organisation since the CPGB’s formation in 1921, argues DYLAN MURPHY

Features / 5 August 2025
5 August 2025

A new report validates disabled people’s criticisms of a welfare system which, under capitalism, is designed to punish rather than support, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY

Pic: Hugh D'Andrade/EFF-Graphics/CC
Features / 25 July 2025
25 July 2025

DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants