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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
Features / 14 October 2022
14 October 2022
Just because the Tories are on the back foot we cannot simply wait for a Labour government — it is time to unite our various campaigns into one socialist struggle, writes MATT WILLGRESS, national organiser for Arise Festival
Delegates wave Palestinian flags at the Labour Party's annua
Features / 26 September 2022
26 September 2022
Writing ahead of the Labour and Palestine fringe, MATT WILLGRESS says the continuing occupation and attacks on civilians by Israel must be cause to redouble our own resistance to attacks from the right on the solidarity movement here in Britain
Tens of thousands taking part in a demonstration in central
Features / 23 September 2022
23 September 2022
As mass meetings proclaim ‘enough is enough’ and more and more workers go on strike, it is clear people want real action to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, writes MATT WILLGRESS, introducing 10 demands for the emerging movement from the Labour Assembly Against Austerity
Rebecca Long Bailey
Features / 5 February 2020
5 February 2020
As the Labour leadership campaign moves on, Rebecca Long Bailey is showing why she can win for Labour, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Rebecca Long Bailey
Features / 10 January 2020
10 January 2020
There is only one choice for the left in the Labour leadership race, argues MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 3 January 2020
3 January 2020
Now is the time for us to look ahead and fight back against the Tories’ reactionary agenda, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 10 December 2019
10 December 2019
Tory proposals are the opposite of taking back control, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 6 December 2019
6 December 2019
The homelessness scandal is deepening and a national disgrace, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 28 November 2019
28 November 2019
The Tories are in denial about how their austerity agenda is linked to deepening poverty, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 25 November 2019
25 November 2019
Jeremy Corbyn’s stance on the Chagos Islands is just one clear example of how Labour would implement a truly ethical foreign policy, writes MATT WILLGRESS
A woman demonstrating in support of ousted president Evo Mor
Features / 22 November 2019
22 November 2019
The right-wing de facto dictatorship must be widely exposed, writes Matt Willgress
Features / 21 November 2019
21 November 2019
The next 21 days are going to see them throw everything they can at us, but we can win real change, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 18 November 2019
18 November 2019
The massive coverage of Labour’s broadband announcement shows that we are starting to set the agenda, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 11 November 2019
11 November 2019
Labour’s people-powered campaign is off to a flying start, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at the launch the Cons
Features / 5 November 2019
5 November 2019
Labour’s campaign is off to a flying start, writes Matt Willgress
Features / 18 October 2019
18 October 2019
Only Labour has the strategy to unite Leavers and Remainers and deliver a better quality of life for all, says MATT WILLGRESS
Trade union delegates take a vote
Features / 25 September 2019
25 September 2019
The left must be the strongest advocates of the unions’ essential bond with the Labour Party, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union (centre)
Labour Conference ’19 / 23 September 2019
23 September 2019
Important contributions from CLP delegates, trade union delegates and members of the shadow cabinet show how we can come together for a better Britain, writes MATT WILLGRESS 
Diane Abbott speaks at conference
Features / 23 September 2019
23 September 2019
Developments at conference show it’s time for the left to unite and focus on our positive policy alternatives, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gives a speech at the TUC Congre
TUC Congress ’19 / 9 September 2019
9 September 2019
A Jeremy Corbyn-led government will transform the workplace, writes MATT WILLGRESS, national organiser of the Labour Assembly Against Austerity
Now is the time for a unified fight back from the left - and
Features / 10 July 2019
10 July 2019
MATT WILLGRESS says now is the time to unite against Tory austerity, at the launch of a new campaign
Features / 24 May 2019
24 May 2019
MATT WILLGRESS looks at the importance of this summer’s ‘Arise — a festival of Labour’s Left Ideas’ for the left in the current political climate
Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro smiles as he attends
Features / 28 November 2018
28 November 2018
MATT WILLGRESS looks at what might be in store for the newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro — an admirer of the country's past brutal dictatorship
John McDonnell address conference
Labour Conference 2018 / 24 September 2018
24 September 2018
Daily conference update from MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 10 August 2018
10 August 2018
It has never been more important to back Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Labour, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Features / 26 July 2018
26 July 2018
Ahead of Arise this weekend, MATT WILLGRESS writes on why we need to deepen understanding of socialist economics and popularise Labour’s alternative
SAME OLD SERVILITY: ‘England, who’s England,’ c1947, c
Arise / 12 July 2018
12 July 2018
Matt Willgress reports on an upcoming major Labour left festival of ideas which will look at how we can better campaign for a better world for the many
Labour councillors in Trafford celebrate as the Conservative
Features / 10 May 2018
10 May 2018
Last week, Labour built on last year’s historic vote at the general election despite months of unrelenting hostility from much of the media, writes Matt Willgress
Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 9 2018
Open Letter / 27 March 2018
27 March 2018
MATT WILLGRESS introduces an open letter by No Coup in Brazil in protest at the murder of a Brazilian rights activist