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Joe Gill
Mourners gather around the bodies of 8 Red Crescent emergenc
Features / 3 April 2025
3 April 2025
The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
The office of Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and
Features / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
The trio were given a conditional discharge and £600 penalties after painting ‘Stop arming Israel’ on Science Secretary Peter Kyle’s window in frustration at being ignored despite attempts to meet their MP, reports JOE GILL
Features / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
JOE GILL hazards a guess: Musk’s salute was a message to all of the world’s far-right legions: now is our time
Elon Musk speaks at Life Centre Church in Harrisburg, Pennsy
Features / 10 January 2025
10 January 2025
From their apartheid-era childhoods to Trump’s inner circle, billionaires Elon Musk and Peter Thiel bring a colonial ‘divide and rule’ mindset to the global far-right project, where the masses turn on each other, writes JOE GILL
CORPORATE OVERLORDS: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves host an
Features / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
The left must call out the fact that BlackRock and private billionaires have merged with the state apparatus as our leaders abandon any pretence of there being a ‘free market’ for direct and overt corporate control, writes JOE GILL
LABOUR PAINS: Keir Starmer’s government has inflicted poli
Features / 14 October 2024
14 October 2024
A Tory-lite Labour Party is clearly unpopular with the electorate who are desperate to see actual improvement to Britain’s decimated public services, writes JOE GILL
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris
Features / 27 August 2024
27 August 2024
Last week’s Democratic National Convention showed Harris is offering more of the same war agenda as Biden, writes JOE GILL
Features / 5 February 2024
5 February 2024
The analysis of the pioneering anti-colonial writer is still relevant in today’s war in Gaza. The parallels between the Algeria liberation war and the West’s conduct today are many, writes JOE GILL
A woman holds up a white flag to prevent being shot, as Pale
Features / 16 November 2023
16 November 2023
In light of the brutal onslaught on Gaza, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept a two-state solution, writes JOE GILL
NO EXAMPLE: Ramsay MacDonald’s compromises damned Labour
Features / 20 September 2023
20 September 2023
Ramsay Macdonald’s betrayal of 1931 is a warning to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves not to try and ‘out-orthodox’ the Conservatives on cuts and spending, writes JOE GILL
VIRTUOSO: Yussef Dayes performs at Love Supreme Jazz festiva
Festival Review / 5 July 2023
5 July 2023
JOE GILL wallows in superb evenings of jazz, funk and rap, and only regrets that savouring the music displaced his opportunity to heckle
STARMER, ARE YOU LISTENING? NEU, TUC, PCS and UCU protest in
Opinion / 8 March 2023
8 March 2023
The Labour leader has backed himself and his allies into a corner with their commitment to scapegoating progressive politics — but going to the right won’t work for long if Labour is elected as an alternative to the Tories, argues JOE GILL