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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, July 14, 2025, in Washington

Russia / 15 July 2025

Russian leaders label Trump tariff plan as 'theatrical'

15 July 2025

Relatives carry the body of 13-year-old Seraje Ebrahim, killed in an Israeli strike on a drinking water distribution point, for burial outside Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, July 13, 2025

Gaza / 14 July 2025

'The Palestinian genocide threatens our entire multilateral system'

14 July 2025

Over 30 nations to gather in Colombia to bring a halt to the genocide in Gaza

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a photo during their meeting in Beijing, China, July 13, 2025. Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP

China / 14 July 2025

Chinese and Russian foreign ministers meet in Beijing

14 July 2025

A Palestinian man carries the body of his child, who was killed by an Israeli military air strike on Gaza, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, July 12, 2025

Gaza Genocide / 13 July 2025

Palestinians shot dead by the Israelis at a water collection point

13 July 2025

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting in Wonsan, North Korea, July 12, 2025

World / 13 July 2025

Russia warns against US led military alliance against North Korea

13 July 2025

Sara al-Nouri mourns over the body of her 13-year-old sister, Sama, who was among 10 people, including two women and five children, killed by an Israeli strike while they were waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025

Gaza Genocide / 11 July 2025

‘Horrific’ scenes as Israeli forces kill at least 10 Palestinians sheltering in a school

11 July 2025

Relatives mourn over the bodies of Manal Abd Rabbo and her sister Fatima, who were among 10 people killed in an Israeli strike while waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip,July 10, 2025

Gaza / 10 July 2025

Israeli forces kill at least 55 Palestinians in Gaza

10 July 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) meets with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) on the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' meeting in Kuala Lumpur, July 10, 2025

Russia-Ukraine / 10 July 2025

US claims exchange of new ideas with Russia for Ukraine peace talks

10 July 2025

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli army bombardment in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, July 8, 2025

Gaza / 9 July 2025

At least 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza

9 July 2025

Bank employees shout slogans against privatization of public sector banks during a country-wide strike in Mumbai, India, July 9, 2025

India / 9 July 2025

Largest strike in history brings India to a standstill

9 July 2025

Displaced Palestinians bake bread in a school now serving as a shelter in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, July 6, 2025

Gaza / 7 July 2025

At least 26 Palestinians killed by Israeli military action in Gaza as ceasefire talks continue

7 July 2025

An Israeli army tank advances in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, July 3, 2025

Gaza / 6 July 2025

Israeli air attacks kill at least 38 Palestinians in Gaza

6 July 2025

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (right) flashes a thumbs up as he and China's Premier Li Qiang pose for photos during their bilateral meeting ahead of the upcoming 17th annual BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, July 5, 2025

Brazil / 6 July 2025

Brics summit opens in Rio

6 July 2025

Security guards stand watch as Haiti's Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime (centre) talks with the Mexico's Charge d'Affaires Jesus Cisneros after attending an event marking one year since the start of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 26, 2025

Port-au-Prince / 3 July 2025

Militias in ‘near-total control’ of Haiti's capital, UN warns

3 July 2025

A Palestinian girl stands atop the rubble of the Al-Aimawi family's home that was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Al-Zawaideh, Gaza Strip, July 1, 2025

Gaza / 2 July 2025

Hamas open to ceasefire deal with Israel but rejects Trump's proposals

2 July 2025

New UN report accuses 60 major tech companies and executives of profiteering from Israel’s ‘replacement’ of Palestinians

This June 2023 photo provided by the World Food Programme shows food distribution by the WFP for internally displaced persons at the Wad Almajzoub farm camp in Wad Medani, Gezira state, Sudan

Sudan / 2 July 2025

Sudanese at risk of worsening hunger from civil war

2 July 2025

Palestinians women mourn during the funeral of people who were killed while returning from one of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centers operated by the U.S.-backed organization, according to Nasser Hospital, during their funerals in Khan Younis, Monday, June 30, 2025

Palestine / 1 July 2025

Dozens of top charities call for disbanding of Gaza aid body

1 July 2025

US President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, and Rwanda's Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe, June 27, 2025

USAid / 1 July 2025

Trump global aid cuts risk 14 million deaths in five years, says Lancet

1 July 2025

Displaced Palestinians flee Jabalia after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders in Gaza City, June 29, 2025

Gaza / 30 June 2025

Israeli forces kill at least 22 Palestinian aid seekers in Gaza

30 June 2025

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (left) speaks with Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, during the four-day Financing for Development meeting in the southern city of Seville, Spain, June 30, 2025

Spain / 30 June 2025

Nations meet to drum up support to combat poverty

30 June 2025

Palestinians inspect damaged tents after an Israeli strike hit a displacement camp in Gaza City, June 28, 2025

Gaza / 29 June 2025

Trump calls for Gaza ceasefire deal

29 June 2025

Mourners attend the funeral ceremony of the Iranian armed forces generals, nuclear scientists and their family members who were killed in Israeli strikes, at Islamic Revolution Square (Enghelab Square) square, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2025

Iran / 29 June 2025

Over a million mourn top Iranian commanders and scientists killed by the Israelis

29 June 2025

Palestinians carry bags of flour looted from aid trucks in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 26, 2025

Gaza / 27 June 2025

Medics slam 'slaughter masquerading' as humanitarian relief in Gaza

27 June 2025

A machine loads a container on trucks as a train loaded with containers leave the Chongqing Railway Container Terminal Station in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on May 20, 2025

Trade War / 27 June 2025

China and US confirm framework for trade deal

27 June 2025

Palestinians line up to receive bags of flour distributed by the World Food Programme (WFP) in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, June 26, 2025

Gaza / 26 June 2025

Efforts being intensified to reach ceasefire deal, says Hamas

26 June 2025

People attend the funeral ceremony of Mahan Setareh, a member of the paramilitary Basij force who was killed in Israeli attacks, in Tehran, Iran, June 26, 2025

Iran / 26 June 2025

Iran’s supreme leader warns the US against further attacks

26 June 2025

A member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard stands guard at Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in downtown Tehran, Iran, June 24, 2025

Israel-Iran / 24 June 2025

Fragile ceasefire between Iran and Israel appears to hold after false start

24 June 2025

Hamam Al-Farani sits next to his sister (in white), along with other family members as the body of their father Alaa, killed by an Israeli army strike that also injured the boy, is prepared for burial at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, June 24, 2025

Middle East / 24 June 2025

Israeli soldiers kill at least 25 Palestinians as they wait for humanitarian aid

24 June 2025

Britain / 20 June 2025

Devolution must protect jobs and services, Unison demands

20 June 2025

Britain / 20 June 2025

The climate emergency must be core work for Unison, delegates told

20 June 2025

People take part in the National march for Palestine in cent

Unison Conference 2025 / 19 June 2025

Unison steps up its support for Palestinians

19 June 2025

UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea joins ambulance workers on the picket line outside Longley Ambulance Station in Sheffield, January 11, 2023

Unison Conference 2025 / 18 June 2025

Tax the rich to pay for public services, says Unison leader

18 June 2025

(Left to right) Unison southwest regional secretary Kerry Baigent, with Lydia Kabute and Adekunle Akinola, June 18, 2025

Unison Conference 2025 / 18 June 2025

Unison stands up for migrant workers

18 June 2025

Unison Conference 2025 / 17 June 2025

Unison celebrates huge membership gains

17 June 2025

An injured man is assisted in the street after an explosion in downtown Tehran, amid Israel's three-day campaign of strikes against Iran, June 15, 2025

Middle East / 16 June 2025

‘Israel must end its illegal war on Iran,’ peace activists demand

16 June 2025

Flames rise from an oil storage facility after it appeared to have been hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025

Features / 17 June 2025

US and Britain dangerously complicit in Israel’s ‘Pearl Harbour’ attack on Iran

17 June 2025

We are being dragged into not just a war, but a potentially nuclear war

Firefighters and people clean up the scene of an explosion at a residence compound after Israeli attacks in Tehran, June 13, 2025

Middle East / 13 June 2025

Israel’s ‘reckless strikes’ on Iran are a ‘threat to the safety of humankind across the world’

13 June 2025

Peace campaigners demand Britain and US stop enabling Israel's ‘insatiable killing’

Fires burning in Portadown in Co Armagh, following three nights of disorder in Ballymena, Co Antrim, June 12, 2025

Northern Ireland / 13 June 2025

Racist rioting continues in Northern Ireland

13 June 2025

Palestinians carry the body of a person who died last night while trying to get access to humanitarian aid, near the al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, June 11, 2025

Gaza / 11 June 2025

Official Palestinian death toll in Gaza passes 55,000

11 June 2025

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng (right) shakes hands with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent before their meeting to discuss China-U.S. trade, in London, June 9, 2025. Photo: Li Ying/Xinhua via AP

Trade War / 11 June 2025

China and US agree framework to resolve trade dispute

11 June 2025

People wave the Palestinian flag and hold signs in support of Greta Thunberg and other activists who tried to deliver aid to Gaza before their ship was seized and they were detained by Israeli forces, near the port of Ashdod, Israel, June 9, 2025

Freedom Flotilla / 11 June 2025

Israel deports Thunberg after she and 11 activists were seized by the military

11 June 2025

Demonstrators react to the death of Kenyan blogger Albert Ojwang, who died while in police custody, in Nairobi, June 9, 2025

Policing / 10 June 2025

Kenyan police tear gas activists during death in custody protest

10 June 2025

Climate activist Greta Thunberg flanked by Thiago Avila from a human rights organization meets with journalists in Catania, Italy, June 1, 2025, ahead of their departure for the Mideast

Gaza / 9 June 2025

Israel detains Greta Thunberg and 11 other activists

9 June 2025

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks during the opening of the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, French Riviera, June 9, 2025

France / 9 June 2025

UN Oceans conference opens in France

9 June 2025

People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025

Anti-Racism / 8 June 2025

‘Go forward as a movement of hope’

8 June 2025

Thousands take to the streets in massive show of opposition to Labour cuts

Trucks move through containers piled up at a container terminal in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on June 3, 2025

Trade War / 8 June 2025

China and US trade talks set to resume in London

8 June 2025

Palestinians carry bags containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 6, 2025

Gaza / 6 June 2025

Israeli shelling near aid hubs kill at least 7 Palestinians

6 June 2025

U.S. reinforcements wade through the surf from a landing craft in the days following D-Day and the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France at Normandy in June 1944 during World War II

France / 6 June 2025

D-Day veterans return to Normandy to mark 81st anniversary

6 June 2025

Buildings that were destroyed during the Israeli ground and air operations stand in northern of Gaza Strip during the sunset as seen from southern Israel, June 3, 2025

Gaza / 5 June 2025

Israel recovers the bodies of two hostages as its bombing of Gaza kills at least 43 Palestinians

5 June 2025

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following Russia's drone attack in the Pryluky, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, June 5, 2025. Photo: Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP

Europe / 5 June 2025

At least five killed in Ukraine by Russian air strike

5 June 2025

Palestinians carry bags filled with food and humanitarian aid provided by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, June 3, 2025

Gaza / 3 June 2025

At least 27 Palestinians shot dead by Israelis in another aid centre attack

3 June 2025

A general View of a Next store in London

Sri Lanka / 3 June 2025

Sri Lankan garment unions accuse Next of union busting

3 June 2025

US flags are displayed together with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw on September 16, 2018, in Beijing

International Trade / 2 June 2025

China hits back at US for undermining trade talks

2 June 2025

An Israeli army vehicle moves in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, May 29, 2025

Gaza / 30 May 2025

Hamas considers new US ceasefire plan for Gaza

30 May 2025

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre) attends the signing ceremony of the ‘Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation,’ in Hong Kong, May 30, 2025

China / 30 May 2025

China forms new global mediation group

30 May 2025

Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders during a ceremony in September 2011, in Berlin, Germany

Colonialism / 29 May 2025

Namibia holds first genocide remembrance day

29 May 2025

Palestinians inspect a site used as a shelter for displaced residents that was hit by Israeli military strike, in Gaza City, May 25, 2025

Gaza / 26 May 2025

Hamas agrees to US Gaza ceasefire proposal

26 May 2025

Demonstrators rally in New York's Union Square on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd, May 25, 2025

United States / 26 May 2025

Thousands mark the 5th anniversary of George Floyd's murder

26 May 2025

Gaza war / 23 May 2025

Israel keeps up aid chokehold and Gaza blitz

23 May 2025

Barely 100 trucks enter as bombs kill another 60

World / 23 May 2025

Iran and US continue nuclear talks

23 May 2025

Sri Lanka / 22 May 2025

Union slams sudden Sri Lankan factory closure

22 May 2025

President Donald Trump meets South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, May 21, 2025, in Washington

United States / 22 May 2025

Outrage grows over Trump's Oval Office ambush of South Africa's President

22 May 2025

Gaza / 21 May 2025

‘We are witnessing medieval barbarity’

21 May 2025

Israel continues to pound Gaza as activists call for a public inquiry into Britain’s role

Malaysia / 21 May 2025

Bangladeshi migrant workers demand thousands in unpaid wages

21 May 2025

Osama Abu Mosabbah, mourns his wife and two children who were killed in an Israeli army airstrike on the Gaza Strip, during their funeral at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, May 20, 2025

Gaza / 20 May 2025

Israeli air attacks in Gaza kill at least 60 Palestinians

20 May 2025

Features / 16 April 2025

Black women: a quiet revolution in our unions

16 April 2025

From the TUC Race Relations Committee to national union treasurers, a new generation of formidable black women leaders are breaking barriers and transforming the movement through uncompromising politics, writes ROGER McKENZIE

(L-R) Former World Heavyweight Champions Joe Frazier, George

Obituary / 24 March 2025

Remembering Big George’s impact on boxing and history

24 March 2025

ROGER McKENZIE writes about late boxing legend Foreman’s legacy, from his part in Rumble in the Jungle to becoming world heavyweight champion at 45

AFRICAN HERO: A Walter Rodney poster in Georgetown, Guyana

Features / 20 March 2025

Walter Rodney: the revolutionary who explained African exploitation

20 March 2025

The Guyanese scholar’s groundbreaking work revealed how Europe deliberately underdeveloped Africa while using its resources and people to fuel Western capitalism, writes ROGER MCKENZIE

A plenary session during the Bandung Conference, 1955

Features / 9 January 2025

The ‘Bandung spirit’ lives on in the new multipolar world

9 January 2025

China’s huge growth and trade success have driven the expansion of the Brics alliance — now is a good time for the global South to rediscover 1955’s historic Bandung conference, and learn its lessons, writes ROGER McKENZIE

The Great Mosque of Djenne, Mali. The first mosque on the si

Features / 2 January 2025

Dignity for the Sahel

2 January 2025

The revolutions in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso against the old colonial powers are seldom understood in terms of Africans’ own agency and their rejection of the imperialist humiliation thrust upon them, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 28 December 2024

No more Rhodesias: renaming Africa

28 December 2024

From Zimbabwe’s provinces to Mali’s streets, nations are casting off colonial labels in their quest for true independence and dignity in a revival of the pan-African spirit, writes ROGER McKENZIE

FIRST-HAND VIEW: Flavia Ocampo says Nicaragua has been a vic

Features / 26 November 2024

‘Come see Nicaragua’s reality for yourself’

26 November 2024

Challenging critics of the Sandinista government, the young Nicaraguan union leader FLAVIA OCAMPO speaks to Roger McKenzie about the nation’s progressive health system and how trade unions have been at the centre of social progress

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED: The 2020-21 farmers’ protests in In

Features / 14 November 2024

Resist despair: learn from struggles in the global South

14 November 2024

ROGER McKENZIE argues that facing Trump’s victory and global crises requires looking beyond failed Western organising models to successful resistance movements in the developing world

(Left to right) Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Egyptia

Features / 29 October 2024

Brics – the genie is well and truly out of the bottle

29 October 2024

With the recent meeting in Kazan providing a glimpse of freedom for the global South, we must develop local, regional and international networks that can apply meaningful pressure on those who could steer this new grouping awry, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a reception to

Features / 17 October 2024

Making Black History Month meaningful again

17 October 2024

ROGER McKENZIE argues that Black History Month has been sanitised, losing its original purpose of empowering black people through knowledge of their history and struggles to actually go out and fight the battles of today

Speakers (left to right) Roger McKenzie, Jeremy Corbyn, Kate

Features / 15 October 2024

CND conference charts the path for a new peace movement

15 October 2024

ROGER McKENZIE reports on how peace activists in Britain are uniting diverse struggles against war, climate change and racism to build a powerful force for global justice in an era of deepening conflict

Features / 3 October 2024

From Memphis to Mandela: Bill Lucy’s lifelong fight for dignity and justice

3 October 2024

ROGER McKENZIE pays heartfelt tribute to the legendary trade unionist who championed black workers while forging powerful alliances across colour lines, reshaping the US labour movement

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu (centre) an

Features / 19 September 2024

From the IMF to Brics: the emerging multipolar order and the imperialist backlash

19 September 2024

New alliances like Brics are forging a multilateral world as the global South nations assert their true independence after almost a century of nominal sovereignty under the reality of crushing economic servitude, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 13 September 2024

Radhika Desai’s Marxist lens illuminates the path to a post-capitalist future

13 September 2024

ROGER McKENZIE explores how the political economist’s work on geopolitical economics and involvement with the International Manifesto Group offer crucial insights into global power shifts as US hegemony fades

Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for President as the

Features / 25 July 2024

From Obama to Kamala, ‘diversity’ without progress is pointless

25 July 2024

Having black capitalist politicians in leadership positions shows that capitalism is able to accommodate racial diversity, writes ROGER McKENZIE — but if the world still starves and burns, so what?

15 July 2024

Islamist terrorism in Xinjiang

15 July 2024

ROGER MCKENZIE uncovers a history of extremist violence ignored by Western media, contextualising the security measures which have been seized on to allege ‘a genocide’ is being carried out by China

Jamaicans aboard the liner Auriga, Plymouth, August 1955

Features / 11 July 2024

Farewell to a generation of Caribbean pioneers

11 July 2024

As the last of his family’s Windrush elders pass away, ROGER McKENZIE reflects on migration, courage and the ongoing struggle against racism in Britain, from the Rwanda plan to ‘stop the boats’

The Islamic Centre in the city of Urumqi — which has recei

Features / 5 July 2024

The Xinjiang I saw was a hub of diversity, not oppression

5 July 2024

From China, ROGER McKENZIE witnesses a place where Islamic culture thrives and economic development powers China’s westward expansion — a reality obscured by Western propaganda

FEARLESS: Singer Paul Robeson addresses the crowd at a World

Features / 27 June 2024

What can we learn from Freedom, a landmark magazine of the cold war era?

27 June 2024

During the height of McCarthyist repression in the US, black rights legends Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham launched a publication that drew the anti-imperialist connections that others feared to make, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 22 June 2024

London Recruits film could inspire a new generation of activists

22 June 2024

The award-winning documentary on British anti-apartheid heroes has already sparked passionate discussions — now trade unions and progressives must integrate it into training and education courses, argues ROGER McKENZIE

STANDING UP: Labour Party Black Sections members (L-R) Paul

Features / 13 June 2024

From Windrush to Thatcher: black workers get organised

13 June 2024

As African and Asian activists pushed back against racism in workplaces and politics in the ’70s and ’80s, eventually trade unions and political parties reluctantly opened their doors to self-organised groups, writes ROGER McKENZIE

LOWER RANKS: Black workers were often recruited to work on t

Features / 12 June 2024

Black British activism after WWI

12 June 2024

In the second in a four-part serialisation of his new book, African Uhuru, ROGER McKENZIE outlines the organised resistance to a surge of racism against black workers in law and in the unions as they returned from the war

Features / 30 May 2024

Gold rush: how the UAE fuels the war in Sudan

30 May 2024

In grim replaying of colonial plunder, the UAE is arming both sides in Sudan’s civil war that broke out in April 2023, paying itself handsomely from the nation’s gold reserves, reports ROGER McKENZIE

EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION: Learning to understand left

Features / 19 May 2024

The People’s Forum NYC: an inspiration

19 May 2024

The professional and modern ‘movement incubator for working-class and marginalised communities’ in a smart building in New York’s Midtown is a shining example of what we should aspire to build in Britain, writes ROGER McKENZIE

REGIME CHANGE: Burkinabe military officer Ibrahim Traore, wh

Features / 16 May 2024

What next for the Sahel region?

16 May 2024

While recognising that Africans must chart their own course for the future, we must not fall into the trap of believing that throwing the French and United States out of the region will mean the people will automatically benefit, cautions ROGER McKENZIE

People walk past a Seagull electric vehicle from Chinese car

Features / 12 May 2024

China leads the global South’s great escape from poverty

12 May 2024

While critics struggle desperately to dismiss or explain away China’s rapid and sustained growth, Beijing’s approach of mutual respect and interdependence is inspiring nations to break free from colonial shackles, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 18 April 2024

The tragedy of a toothless UN

18 April 2024

What is so galling about this body that has the potential to deliver global justice on a fairly egalitarian basis, is that it generally identifies what should be done — then cannot do it because the US is all-powerful, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Villagers in Asmut, Ethiopia, put on a traditional welcome
f

Features / 3 April 2024

Recognising the humanity of Ethiopia

3 April 2024

An encounter with a cabbie has ROGER McKENZIE reflecting on the remarkable history of a great African nation and the importance of migrants and their skills for our beloved NHS

VICTIMISED: Diane Abott MP has been badly treated in the Com

Features / 21 March 2024

Anti-black racism remains overt, pervasive — and exhausting

21 March 2024

Racism in Britain has been forced to become more subtle over the years — but it certainly hasn't been watching the treatment of Diane Abbott this last week. Her experience is, sadly, familiar to many of us, writes ROGER McKENZIE

GRIM PROSPECT: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trum

Features / 7 March 2024

Warfare Trumps welfare — whoever wins the US election

7 March 2024

In 2022 alone, a staggering $800 billion was spent on the military, with 40 per cent funnelling into the coffers of a tiny number of major arms manufacturers — meanwhile, the country crumbles, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 11 January 2024

Black or BAME: the right to choose our own name

11 January 2024

From the arbitrary lines drawn with a ruler on the map of Africa to arbitrary regional terms like ‘the Middle East,’ we need to reject names picked for us — including the new clumsy ethnic labels, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building of the Al Nawa

Features / 28 December 2023

War is becoming the world’s default setting

28 December 2023

From the Congo to Sudan conflicts are raging — as leftists, our job has to be not just calling for peace, but identifying the malign outside forces and wider geopolitical interests fuelling the slaughter, writes ROGER McKENZIE

MPs and local mayors join protesters outside St Paul’s Cat

Features / 28 November 2023

The West still traps the global South in debt

28 November 2023

For all the talk of the rise of the developing world and the decline of the West’s malignant power over it, we still haven’t seen a ‘can’t pay, won’t pay’ rebellion over ballooning Third World debt, writes ROGER McKENZIE

ONE VOICE: Stand Up To Racism demo in Glasgow March 2023

Features / 3 November 2023

Black communists, immigration, reparations and anti-racism

3 November 2023

The proud history of black and white unity in the Communist Party over the last century has laid the ground to develop the progressive policies we need today, writes ROGER MCKENZIE

Palestinians stand and others search for survivors and bodie

Features / 2 November 2023

The only position of conscience is to oppose war

2 November 2023

To withdraw into cold geopolitical analysis is unforgivable — there is nothing inevitable about the massacre being carried out against the Palestinians and our calls for peace matter, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Labour Party Conference 2023 / 10 October 2023

‘We are looking at compensation for slavery and colonialism’

10 October 2023

Speaking to the Star’s Roger McKenzie, BELL RIBEIRO-ADDY MP talks about the growing campaign for reparations that now has cross-party support from several Members of Parliament

Features / 4 October 2023

Modern-day slavery is growing

4 October 2023

Forced and unpaid labour are spreading across the globe, from the garment trade to cleaning to construction — we need to stop turning a blind eye, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Brics is about creating new rules of the game. By definition

Features / 20 September 2023

Is the Caribbean even ready for Brics?

20 September 2023

These rich islands still have close political and economic relationships with the nations that enslaved them — is it any wonder truly independent nations in Africa are considered for Brics first, asks ROGER McKENZIE

Chilean refugees Silvia Velasquez (left) and Juani Colque

Features / 11 September 2023

‘The enemy worked from the darkness’

11 September 2023

Two Chilean refugees, JUANI COLQUE and SYLVIA VELASQUEZ, tell Roger McKenzie how they experienced the US-backed coup on September 11 1973 that installed the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet

Features / 6 September 2023

Drinking on the pitch at Lords

6 September 2023

ROGER McKENZIE recalls a formative experience for black Britain, watching the West Indies beat England half a century ago — and the ‘explosive’ situation that led to fans drinking on the pitch with the players

Features / 23 August 2023

The Gladstones’ apology for slavery is the beginning of a hard conversation

23 August 2023

After abolition in 1883, the famous family received the largest payout of all from the Slave Compensation Commission — now the process needs to be reversed, argues ROGER McKENZIE

Nigeriens participate in a march called by supporters of cou

Features / 10 August 2023

Africa: uprisings against Western exploitation are inevitable

10 August 2023

Direct colonial rule may have ended in the last century — but how did anyone expect the rampant appropriation of Africa’s resources by the West to continue unchallenged, asks ROGER McKENZIE

SANDANISTA: President Daniel Ortega speaks in Managua, July

Features / 27 July 2023

Now is not the time to abandon the Sandinistas

27 July 2023

Returning from Nicaragua, ROGER McKENZIE asks why many progressives in the West feel qualified to denounce the Nicaraguan movement that is in a daily struggle against US imperialism

Flames from the Donnie Creek wildfire burn along a ridge top

Features / 13 July 2023

Fighting climate colonialism is a global necessity

13 July 2023

The ecological crisis caused is already hitting the global South harder than the regions where the capitalists responsible live — anyone disrupting ‘business as usual’ should be applauded, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 6 July 2023

Mariam and Ashok Dhawale: organising in the millions

6 July 2023

Representing a combined membership of around 25 million workers and women in India, the two leaders spoke to ROGER McKENZIE about how all organising must begin face to face at the grassroots

HISTORY REPEATING: Deputy Tory leader William Whitelaw’s p

Features / 22 June 2023

Black Britons have fought multiple ‘hostile environments’

22 June 2023

ROGER McKENZIE explains how the Windrush scandal is rooted in a long history of legal and social opposition to black people living in Britain, but each time, political organisation has beaten racism

Features / 14 June 2023

Tinkering round the edges is not enough

14 June 2023

While an astonishing proportion of the world is impoverished, the already unimaginably wealthy keep getting richer. Bold and decisive action is needed, says ROGER McKENZIE

A US soldier stands guard as a helicopter takes off during t

Features / 1 June 2023

The US is a world leader in authoritarianism

1 June 2023

If the situation for citizens of the West’s most powerful nation was not bad enough, consider what this global bully does to maintain its interests across the planet, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 3 May 2023

The cost of food goes down — the price of food goes up

3 May 2023

The small number of huge companies that control most of the food market are artificially increasing prices even though the spike in cost due to the war in Ukraine is now long over, explains ROGER McKENZIE

SOURCE OF PRIDE: Joel Garner holds aloft the World Cup troph

Features / 19 April 2023

Failing the Tebbit test with pride

19 April 2023

Cricket was a source of anti-colonial and ethnic pride for many young black men like me growing up — so long as we stuck to an 'anyone but England' stance, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Workers mine cobalt without equipment in Democratic Republic

Features / 6 April 2023

Still bleeding Africa dry

6 April 2023

From slavery to colonialism to the modern era of ‘full-spectrum dominance,’ the West has never released its grip on the continent or its people, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Protesters march during a demonstration Tuesday, March 28, 2

World / 3 April 2023

French communist leader refuses to meet PM until pensions plan is withdrawn

3 April 2023

Najia Sorosh head of Sadai Banowan a women-run radio station

World / 3 April 2023

Taliban shuts down only women-run radio station

3 April 2023

Thousands gather at the graveyard after the massacre

Features / 29 March 2023

Sharpeville must be remembered as Sharpeville

29 March 2023

The 1960 murder of black protesters was a turning point in the awareness of racism globally, but today in South Africa, we are allowing it to be remembered simply as Human Rights Day, TSOANA NHLAPO tells Roger McKenzie

MILITANT AND MASSIVE: Protesters march during a rally agains

Features / 24 March 2023

How young French communists are fighting Macron

24 March 2023

National co-ordinator of the youth section of the Communist Party of France ASSAN LAKEHOUL speaks to the Morning Star's Roger McKenzie about the priorities of his organisation and the background to the intense class clashes taking place on the streets

Features / 22 March 2023

Labour’s hypocrisy on racism is itself deeply racist

22 March 2023

The most maddening aspect of watching the party leadership ignore the Forde report is the frenzied zeal with which the same clique pursued the anti-semitism scandal — all for factional purposes, not justice, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Plenary session during the Bandung Conference, Indonesia, 19

Features / 8 March 2023

The meaning of the Bandung conference

8 March 2023

The non-alignment and the South-South co-operation that started at Bandung has never been about shutting others out, but allowing the global majority to develop its own path, free of exploitation and interference, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 10 January 2023

Our movement has lessons to learn from the global South

10 January 2023

Recommending a new book that looks at what British unions can learn from outside of Europe and the US, ROGER McKENZIE advises against 'one-size-fits-all' approaches to workplace organising

PICKING TARGETS: The ARTF has proposed organising strategies

Features / 28 December 2022

A new push on anti-racism in the unions: will it succeed?

28 December 2022

The TUC Anti-Racism Taskforce promises a renewed campaign that will ‘listen to black workers’ — this is good, but many of the suggestions and proposals have been waiting to be enacted for decades, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 14 December 2022

March of the un-people: from Sri Lanka to the world

14 December 2022

After meeting the super-exploited workers of the global South who supply the clothing retail giants in the West, ROGER McKENZIE calls for a renewed commitment to international organisation

People cast their ballots at Coit Arts Academy in Grand Rapi

Features / 16 November 2022

Land of the free (but only if you’re rich and white)

16 November 2022

The US has pushed through 40 new pieces of legislation to restrict voting rights since 2021 - so how can it claim to be a beacon of democracy, asks ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 2 November 2022

Diversity is no substitute for actual equality

2 November 2022

Looking at the high number of top Tories now from black and Asian backgrounds some people seem to think it's time to stop talking about racism and inequality — they could not be more wrong, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Protesters outside the US Embassy in London, as part of an a

Features / 19 October 2022

We need to reclaim Black History Month as a time for organising radical resistance

19 October 2022

The month has been hijacked by too many people intent on showing how right-on they are and as an opportunity for them to reveal their performative ‘againstism’ – a pose soon forgotten by November, writes ROGER McKENZIE

BLACK POWER: Wayne Collett’s 1972 protest would cost him h

Features / 21 September 2022

Remember Matthews and Collett: pick your own protests

21 September 2022

This month, on the 50th anniversary of their Olympics protest, we must keep in mind the two athletes' career-ending action and remember that we can never wait for an ‘acceptable’ time to offend the status quo, writes ROGER McKENZIE

OPPORTUNITY: Unite members on a picket line at one of the en

Features / 24 August 2022

We can use strikes as a time to connect with communities

24 August 2022

ROGER McKENZIE reflects on how to use the ever-growing number of picket lines even more effectively to offer support to those who need it and build solidarity

PASSING FAD? Now that the BLM moment has receded, will the l

Features / 10 August 2022

Call out racism — get called a crank

10 August 2022

ROGER McKENZIE braves the trolls to ask what the Labour Party and wider labour movement will actually do about the racism revealed in Forde and other reports

IMPERIAL REMNANT: Prince William arrives in Jamaica, March 2

Features / 27 July 2022

Sorry is not enough: it is time for reparations

27 July 2022

When millions of black people across the world can trace their journeys from Africa back to slavery, this is not ancient history but a crime that lives with us every day. The call for material compensation must be heard, writes ROGER McKENZIE

A Somali man and his wife who fled drought-stricken areas bu

Features / 15 June 2022

Priorities must change if we’re to end hunger

15 June 2022

It’s not that there isn’t enough money to make sure that everyone on the planet has enough food in their stomachs – it’s that politicians choose to spend the money elsewhere, says ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 5 April 2022

The numbers don't lie: black and Asian workers hit hardest

5 April 2022

The country has been plunged into the worst cost-of-living crisis in living memory and pre-existing racial inequality only magnifies the impact, explains ROGER McKENZIE

AGGRAVATED UNCERTAINTY: African residents in Ukraine wait at

Features / 8 March 2022

'I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed every day'

8 March 2022

Odious racist and xenophobic attitudes surface in Ukraine conflict. ROGER McKENZIE reports

Features / 23 February 2022

Claudia Jones led the way

23 February 2022

ROGER McKENZIE salutes the life and work of the famous journalist and communist, arguing that the West Indian Gazette, Britain's first black newspaper, should be remembered alongside her founding of the Notting Hill Carnival

Martin Luther King addressing an anti-Vietnam war rally at t

Features / 9 February 2022

Fighting burnout: mental health matters

9 February 2022

Lifelong activist ROGER McKENZIE reflects on the importance of reflection — taking time to look at our actions and assess our emotions, rather than being controlled by them — and how it's helped him as a socialist

Features / 26 January 2022

We must defeat the Policing Bill in its entirety

26 January 2022

The Tories are fighting ferociously for their class. We must demonstrate the same determination and ferocity for our class – and defend our civil liberties, says ROGER McKENZIE

Nurses inoculate a boy against Covid-19 in Uruguay. 'Making

Features / 11 January 2022

Big pharma must be forced to prioritise welfare of humanity

11 January 2022

ROGER McKENZIE looks at how lobbying by powerful cartels buys favour from politicians to the detriment of public health

Britain / 10 January 2022

Labour pushes for fuel levy to aid struggling domestic users

10 January 2022

Workers remove cladding from a building in Paddington, Londo

Britain / 10 January 2022

Plan to make developers pay £4bn to fix dangerous cladding 'doesn't go far enough'

10 January 2022

SOLIDARITY: Protesters in George Square during a Glasgow Say

Book Review / 8 January 2022

Barnes rightly goes beyond race and into class and gender

8 January 2022

A woman carries her child after receiving a food donation fr

Features / 28 December 2021

Make a new year’s resolution to change the world

28 December 2021

While millions suffer in poverty and ill-health, the super-rich are getting even richer. It’s only through organising and collective action that we can seek to redress the balance, says ROGER McKENZIE

A rally against the Nationalities and Borders Bill in London

Features / 21 December 2021

Christmas goodwill should extend to migrants and refugees

21 December 2021

We should reject our ruling elite’s constant war to see who can take the toughest stance against vulnerable people, says ROGER McKENZIE

Asian anti-fascists face police repression during clashes wi

Features / 14 December 2021

Black people will resist the Borders Bill

14 December 2021

Given our history of colonisation, emigration, life as second-class citizens and our experience of open racial prejudice, Britons of African and Asian descent are not surprised by the Tories' latest attack on us — and we are ready to resist it, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation regional directo

Features / 30 November 2021

Colonialism is not historical – it is alive and well

30 November 2021

This weekend’s Latin America conference is a staging post in the struggle against colonialist thinking and towards building international solidarity, says ROGER McKENZIE

Indigenous people in ceremonial dress march from the McLenna

Features / 17 November 2021

Cop26 betrayed the global South

17 November 2021

Real action to deal with the climate emergency will require system change – without it, money will always outweigh the interests of the world’s poorest, argues ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 2 November 2021

Pandora Papers reveal the web of new colonialism

2 November 2021

The exposé is important, but we have always know the super-rich pay little tax and squirrel their wealth away in secret — only working-class power can redress the balance and bring justice to tax-avoiders and the global South, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Matt Hancock is unwelcome as a UN envoy on Covid recovery in

Features / 20 October 2021

Black lives don’t matter to the Tories

20 October 2021

…as evidenced by how human greed is allowed outweigh the importance of African lives, writes ROGER McKENZIE

NO TO HATE: People take part in a Take The Knee event outsid

Features / 5 October 2021

Unions need to be doing more to eradicate racism

5 October 2021

As far as many black workers are concerned, not enough is being done within the labour movement to address racial discrimination, says ROGER McKENZIE

A Benin Bronze plaque on display in the British Museum

Features / 21 September 2021

African antiquities: time to return the loot

21 September 2021

The British Museum still refuses to follow countries such as France in returning artefacts stolen during the colonial era — this enables white supremacy and the belief that Africans were too primitive to be able to produce great works of art, argues ROGER McKENZIE

Workers in Nairobi, Kenya, receive boxes of the Moderna coro

Features / 8 September 2021

A people’s vaccine not a profit vaccine

8 September 2021

Hoarding by the West, in league with big pharma, has seen Africa in particular starved of Covid vaccines — we need an international health service free at the point of delivery, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Features / 22 August 2021

The slave trade: unfinished business

22 August 2021

Remembering slavery on August 23 each year is not about closing the chapter and reassuring the guilty, but a call for justice: the descendants of those that profited still enjoy that wealth today — we must have meaningful reparations for the descendants of slaves, writes ROGER McKENZIE

British army patrol in Malaya, 1957, and (top) Cubans celebr

Features / 11 August 2021

Spreading the anti-imperialism message far and wide

11 August 2021

Long-time trade union organiser ROGER McKENZIE is looking forward to a new era as he moves to a new role heading up the anti-colonial organisation Liberation

Features / 28 July 2021

Nailing the lie that only the right is racist

28 July 2021

We need more than gestures like taking the knee and wearing BLM badges, writes ROGER McKENZIE. We have the ability to create a black-led anti-racist movement — but the white left is still wary of losing its leadership position

Thousands march to Trafalgar Square in central London, to ce

Features / 15 July 2021

Time for unions to up their game

15 July 2021

Plummeting membership and declining activism are largely self-inflicted for Britain’s lethargic trade unions, writes ROGER McKENZIE, arguing for a drastic change of tack