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Matt Willgress
RESISTANCE: An anti-Trump protest at the White House, Washin
Features / 8 February 2025
8 February 2025
Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS
PROTECTING THE INDEFENSIBLE: ProPalestine campaigners callin
Features / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
As Donald Trump returns, it’s also worth returning to Lenin’s analysis of imperialism, writes MATT WILLGRESS
PROGRESS AND REACTION: Right-wing Bolsonaro followers attemp
Features / 18 January 2025
18 January 2025
With Trump coming back to power, interventions aimed at regime change and a far-right resurgence in the region are heavily on the agenda, writes MATT WILLGRESS, calling on the international left to prepare to act in solidarity
FINGER IN THE DIKE: Pumping out excess sewage from the Light
Features / 28 November 2024
28 November 2024
MATT WILLGRESS explains why only public ownership of water and energy supplies can stop the corporate rip-off and help tackle the many crises England faces
Mourners transport the bodies of their relatives killed by a
Labour Conference 2024 / 26 September 2024
26 September 2024
In a fringe speech for the Labour & Palestine campaign group, MATT WILLGRESS contrasts the government’s inaction with the TUC’s demands, calling for recognition of Palestine, an arms embargo and concrete steps to hold Israel accountable
A Palestinian child walks with a bicycle by the rubble of a
Labour Conference 2024 / 21 September 2024
21 September 2024
The region’s left speaks up for Palestine, while the US empire’s stooges in Latin America do as their master says, writes MATT WILLGRESS
NON-OFFER: Rachel Reeves
Features / 7 June 2024
7 June 2024
We need to urgently put forward – and mobilise now for – policies that can actually address the depth of the crises we face, writes MATT WILLGRESS, of Labour Assembly Against Austerity
It is time for the left to come together and get our act tog
Labour Conference 2023 / 7 October 2023
7 October 2023
MATT WILLGRESS, from Arise – A Festival of Left Ideas, calls for greater co-ordination on the left
Under Keir Starmer's leadership, Labour members have often b
Features / 11 August 2023
11 August 2023
The recent blocking of Mish Rahman yet again showed contempt for Labour Party democracy — we need permanent campaigning for the right of members to decide, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 29 January 2023
29 January 2023
Let’s make 2023 a year of massive resistance to the ruling-class offensive, says MATT WILLGRESS
VOX POPULI: Anti-government protesters with a placard ‘Din
Features / 28 January 2023
28 January 2023
The struggle for democracy in Peru continues, says MATT WILLGRESS of Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America
The broader picture is that all the fundamental injustices w
Features / 27 November 2022
27 November 2022
MATT WILLGRESS writes ahead of the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and warns of the growing concern that the Labour front bench barely speaks out at all on the issue today