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First row from left: Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden after the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II

WWII / 9 May 2025

World leaders in Moscow to mark 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat

9 May 2025

Relatives comfort a Kashmiri women waiting for transportation as they leave following overnight shelling from Pakistan at Gingal village in Uri district, Indian-controlled Kashmir, May 9, 2025

South Asia / 9 May 2025

India and Pakistan exchange heavy fire across the Kashmir frontier

9 May 2025

Yemenis watch as smoke billows following Israeli airstrikes targeting a power plant and Sanaa Airport, in Sanaa, Yemen, May 6, 2025

World / 6 May 2025

Israel attacks Yemen's international airport

6 May 2025

Leader of the Christian Democrats Friedrich Merz is applauded after being elected new chancellor at the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2025

World / 6 May 2025

Merz becomes German Chancellor hours after historic defeat

6 May 2025

Supporters of Pasban-e-Hurriyat Jammu and Kashmir chant slogans during an anti-India demonstration, in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan administered Kashmir, May 5, 2025

World / 5 May 2025

UN Security Council set for talks on India and Pakistan crisis

5 May 2025

Displaced Palestinians walk through a makeshift tent camp in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 5, 2025

World / 5 May 2025

US enables Israel's plans to permanently occupy Gaza, say activists

5 May 2025

An Israeli army tank maneuvers in the Gaza Strip is seen from southern Israel, May 4, 2025

World / 4 May 2025

More horror in store for Gaza

4 May 2025

Ministers vote to escalate war on starving Palestinians

Pakistan's Rangers soldiers gesture during a daily closing ceremony at the Wagah, a joint post on the Pakistan and India border, near Lahore, Pakistan, May 3, 2025

World / 4 May 2025

Tensions between Pakistan and India continue to rise

4 May 2025

A DAY TO MOBILISE: May Day marchers in Clerkenwell Green in 2016

Features / 1 May 2025

From Haymarket to today: Why May Day still matters

1 May 2025

As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism

Palestinians inspect the remains of a displacement tent hit

World / 18 April 2025

Israeli attacks in Gaza kill at least 17 Palestinians

18 April 2025

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Chin

World / 18 April 2025

China's Xi completes his state visit to Cambodia

18 April 2025

World / 17 April 2025

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 23, including a family of 10

17 April 2025

Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni, centre right,walks toget

World / 17 April 2025

China's Xi arrives in Cambodia for state visit

17 April 2025

A relative kisses the body of Ahlam Seiam, who was just days

World / 16 April 2025

Israel says it intends to permanently occupy Gaza and parts of Lebanon and Syria

16 April 2025

Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Malaysia's Prime Min

World / 16 April 2025

China to grant Malaysia and Vietnam greater access to its markets

16 April 2025

Alaa Manoun, who is seven months pregnant, is rescued from h

World / 14 April 2025

Hamas says it will free all Israeli hostages if an end to the war in Gaza is guaranteed

14 April 2025

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (right) and Chines

World / 14 April 2025

‘No-one wins’ in a trade war, China's President Xi warns

14 April 2025

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC

Britain / 13 April 2025

TUC leader calls for a stronger union movement to help win racial justice

13 April 2025

People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d

Britain / 13 April 2025

Black workers highlight concerns over the rise of the far right

13 April 2025

Labour MP Dawn Butler, February 15, 2020

Britain / 11 April 2025

Scourge of sexual harassment and misogyny in the workplace highlighted at TUC Black Workers’ Conference panel

11 April 2025

Britain / 11 April 2025

The government sometimes needs a ‘kick up the arse’, a minister tells TUC Black Workers' Conference

11 April 2025

Ahmed Manasra, a 13-year-old Palestinian is brought to a cou

World / 10 April 2025

Israel releases a Palestinian held as a teenager who developed schizophrenia in prison

10 April 2025

People walk by Beijing Stock Exchange on the Financial Stree

World / 10 April 2025

China prioritises shared future with its neighbours amidst the US trade war

10 April 2025

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives who we

World / 9 April 2025

Israeli attack on residential block kills at least 15 Palestinians

9 April 2025

Trucks line up to depart from a container terminal in Nanjin

World / 9 April 2025

China hits back at Washington with 84 per cent tariffs on US goods

9 April 2025

GLOBAL ANGER: Indians burn a US flag at a protest against Tr

Features / 8 April 2025

Trump’s tariffs – the shocks and the after-effects

8 April 2025

While the immediate impact is disastrous, the US president’s actions could lead more nations to seek greater trading stability by refocusing their economies towards each other and countries such as China, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Smoke rises to the sky following an Israeli bombardment in t

World / 7 April 2025

Israel strikes media tent outside Gaza Strip hospital, killing two

7 April 2025

People gather during a leftist demonstration at Place de la

World / 7 April 2025

Thousands gather in counter protests over the guilty verdict against far right Le Pen

7 April 2025

Mourners carry the bodies of Eight Red Crescent emergency re

World / 6 April 2025

Israeli military kill at least 46 Palestinians after backtracking on the slaughter of 15 medics

6 April 2025

Protestors march through New York City during a

World / 6 April 2025

Thousands protest against Trump's government in towns and cities across the US

6 April 2025

Smoke rises from explosions in Gaza today, as seen from Isra

World / 4 April 2025

Israel kills more than a dozen Palestinians across Gaza

4 April 2025

A celebratory march through Seoul tonight following the cour

World / 4 April 2025

South Korean President Yoon removed from office over martial law declaration

4 April 2025

Displaced Palestinians carry water in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip o

World / 3 April 2025

Israel kills at least 55 Palestinians in more Gaza Strip attacks

3 April 2025

A man walks into a merchandise store displaying Chinese and

World / 3 April 2025

China leads the way in hitting back at sweeping new US tariffs

3 April 2025

SYMBOLIC: Chetham's Library, Manchester, United Kingdom foun

Features / 3 April 2025

Treasure troves of ideas

3 April 2025

Public libraries are sanctuaries which facilitate the exploration of the universe of ideas for free for those curious enough. ROGER McKENZIE advocates their protection against authoritarian incursions, US style

A woman checks the damage at the building parking which was

World / 1 April 2025

Israeli attack in southern Beirut kills at least four people

1 April 2025

Displaced Palestinians, who flee from Rafah, arrive in Khan

World / 31 March 2025

Israel proposes extended truce in Gaza for return of half the remaining hostages

31 March 2025

Rescue workers collect the body parts of a person killed in

World / 31 March 2025

Russia repeats opposition to Nato peacekeeping troops in Ukraine

31 March 2025

Smoke from Israeli bombardment rises from the Gaza Strip as

World / 30 March 2025

Hamas accepts new ceasefire deal but Israel makes a counter-proposal

30 March 2025

A local man rides a bicycle past a damaged building in the a

World / 30 March 2025

Frantic search for survivors of Myanmar's massive earthquake that killed at least 1,700

30 March 2025

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in th

World / 28 March 2025

Israel launches air attack on Beirut

28 March 2025

Volunteers for an air-defence unit stand on their position w

World / 28 March 2025

Russia proposes UN control of Ukraine

28 March 2025

Palestinians walk amid the destruction caused by the Israeli

World / 27 March 2025

Israeli killing spree continues across Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon

27 March 2025

Palestinians walk next to a tent camp for displaced by the I

World / 26 March 2025

Israel orders evacuation of parts of Gaza City as it plans another offensive

26 March 2025

Hamdan Ballal, Oscar-winning Palestinian director of

World / 25 March 2025

Oscar-winning Palestinian director released after detention by Israeli army

25 March 2025

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, f

World / 25 March 2025

Deal reached between Russia and Ukraine on safe navigation in the Black Sea

25 March 2025

Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in

World / 24 March 2025

Israeli strikes kill more than 60 Palestinians in Gaza

24 March 2025

World / 24 March 2025

Russian and US negotiators meet to hammer out proposal for partial Ukraine ceasefire

24 March 2025

Displaced Palestinians, carrying their belongings, wood and

World / 21 March 2025

Israel orders further ground forces offensive into Gaza Strip

21 March 2025

In this picture released by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in s

World / 21 March 2025

Sudan's military takes back the capital's Republican Palace

21 March 2025

Ella Osama Abu Dagga, 25 days old, is held by her great-aunt

World / 20 March 2025

Israeli military kills at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip

20 March 2025

Security personnel inspect the site reportedly struck by US

World / 20 March 2025

Trump threatens Houthi government with ‘annihilation’ as US bombs Yemen again

20 March 2025

An explosion erupts in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from

World / 19 March 2025

UN staffer killed by an air attack in Gaza, five others wounded

19 March 2025

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on

World / 19 March 2025

Ukraine and Russia trade air attacks

19 March 2025

A body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli army air strike

Britain / 18 March 2025

British government violates ‘obligation to prevent genocide’

18 March 2025

As Israel breaks ceasefire with air strikes on Gaza, killing 400, and ministers backtrack on acknowledging Israeli war crimes, campaigners ask ‘how many more Palestinians will be slaughtered before Britain stops sending arms to Israel?’

President Donald Trump talks to reporters as Richard Grenell

World / 18 March 2025

Trade unionists of African descent plan the fightback against Trump

18 March 2025

A resident walks on a street during a general blackout in Ha

World / 16 March 2025

Cuba restores pockets of electricity after major power outage

16 March 2025

Yemenis clean debris in front of their shops after a U.S. ai

World / 16 March 2025

Iran denies it provides aid to Yemen's Houthi led forces

16 March 2025

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians is set up amid destro

World / 14 March 2025

African governments deny they have been approached to take in Palestinians forced from Gaza

14 March 2025

People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2

World / 14 March 2025

Sudan is the world's largest humanitarian crisis, says UN

14 March 2025

Chinese navy troops attending a joint naval drill with Iran

World / 12 March 2025

China to host nuclear talks with Iran and Russia

12 March 2025

Cuban doctors arrive at the Jose Marti International Airport

World / 12 March 2025

Caribbean leaders hit back at US crackdown on Cuban medical missions

12 March 2025

Displaced Palestinians lives in a school run by UNRWA, the U

World / 11 March 2025

Israeli military kills four Palestinians in Gaza

11 March 2025

A sweeper cleans as smog envelops the area and reduces visib

World / 11 March 2025

Most of the world's population breathes dirty air, says new report

11 March 2025

Displaced Palestinians girls fill a plastic jerrycan with wa

World / 10 March 2025

‘An escalation of the genocide’

10 March 2025

Israel follows through on threat to cut off electricity supply to the Palestinians in Gaza

Former members of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republi

World / 10 March 2025

Islamic State militia in eastern Congo kill at least nine villagers

10 March 2025

Members of the Abed family warm up by a fire at a tent camp

World / 7 March 2025

Fears of starvation in Gaza as Israel continues to blockade humanitarian aid

7 March 2025

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a press confe

World / 7 March 2025

China's foreign minister says his country will continue to hit back over US tariffs

7 March 2025

Trucks line up at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border cros

World / 5 March 2025

Only enough food supplies in Gaza for two weeks, says UN agency

5 March 2025

Delegates and media watch as Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaks

World / 5 March 2025

China aims for 5% economic growth over the next year

5 March 2025

World / 4 March 2025

Arab leaders meet to endorse counter proposal to Trump's Gaza ethnic cleansing plan

4 March 2025

In this photograph released by UNICEF, a 16-year rape victi

World / 4 March 2025

Children in conflict-ravaged Sudan as young as a year old have been raped, says UN

4 March 2025

People look at buildings that were destroyed during the Isra

World / 3 March 2025

Israel seeks to scrap existing Gaza truce deal and impose new US-backed plan

3 March 2025

World / 3 March 2025

DRC refuses to hold direct talks with Rwanda-backed M23 militia group

3 March 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer (centre) hosts the European lead

World / 2 March 2025

Peace campaigners slam continued rise in British military spending

2 March 2025

Palestinians sit at a large table surrounded by the rubble o

World / 2 March 2025

Gaza ceasefire hangs by a thread as Israel blocks delivery of all supplies

2 March 2025

US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Ukrainian Presi

World / 28 February 2025

Zelensky and Trump meet in Washington DC

28 February 2025

A woman grieves at a memorial for those killed and abducted

World / 28 February 2025

Israeli probe into October 7 attack reveals mistakes and underestimation of Hamas

28 February 2025

Israeli soldiers take up positions next to the Philadelphi C

World / 27 February 2025

Gaza ceasefire deal in peril as Israel refuses to uphold bargain to withdraw from strategic corridor

27 February 2025

General view of Zamzam refugee camp after being attacked, ou

World / 27 February 2025

Half a million at risk in Sudan as World Food Programme halts aid in famine hit displacement camp

27 February 2025

Members of the Dwaima family stand on the rubble of their ho

World / 26 February 2025

Hamas and Israel to continue hostage and prisoner exchange as ceasefire deal teeters on the edge

26 February 2025

A worker controls extraction of ilmenite, a key element used

World / 26 February 2025

Ukraine's Zelensky says framework economic deal with the US is agreed

26 February 2025

Israeli tanks are deployed during an ongoing army operation

World / 24 February 2025

Israeli tanks move into the occupied West Bank in ‘dangerous’ escalation

24 February 2025

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks to the media in

World / 24 February 2025

Leaders gather in Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion

24 February 2025

Israeli tanks gather outside of the occupied West Bank near

World / 23 February 2025

Israel says it plans to keep its troops in parts of the occupied West Bank

23 February 2025

World / 23 February 2025

Cholera outbreak in war-torn Sudan kills nearly 60 people

23 February 2025

INSPIRATION: Malcolm X at
the BBC’s Broadcasting House, L

Features / 20 February 2025

A master teacher remembered

20 February 2025

ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s

IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE: Rafiki Theatre (Uganda) production

Book Review / 13 February 2025

Africa in its own right

13 February 2025

ROGER McKENZIE welcomes an important contribution to the history of Africa, telling the story in its own right rather than in relation to Europeans

People move along a road amid widespread destruction caused

World / 12 February 2025

Israel kills another Palestinian in Gaza despite ceasefire

12 February 2025

People line up to receive food at a shelter for families dis

World / 12 February 2025

Haiti's children caught in the crossfire of gang violence, Amnesty warns

12 February 2025

President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One a

World / 11 February 2025

Hamas hits back at Trump over threats to end the ceasefire

11 February 2025

The US Department of the Treasury building is seen in Washin

World / 11 February 2025

US plummets down corrupt index, new league table shows

11 February 2025

Sudan / 10 February 2025

Army announces roadmap for new government as it moves to recapture Khartoum

10 February 2025

ARRESTED: Education Bookshop owners Ahmad, left, and Mahmoud

Palestine / 10 February 2025

US President Trump doubles down on pledge to take control of Gaza

10 February 2025

An Israeli tank takes a position near the border with Gaza i

World / 9 February 2025

Israeli forces begin withdrawal from key Gaza corridor

9 February 2025

Residents walk by charred vehicles in Goma, Democratic repub

World / 9 February 2025

African leaders call for immediate ceasefire and peace talks in DR Congo

9 February 2025

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel (centre right) and Raul C

Britain / 9 February 2025

Latin American Conference hails the spirit of anti-imperialism and self-determination

9 February 2025

The headquarters of the International Criminal Court is seen

World / 7 February 2025

International court calls on member states for support against Trump sanctions

7 February 2025

Chelsie Acosta, Salt Lake Education Association Vice Preside

World / 7 February 2025

US unions sue the Trump administration over foreign aid cuts

7 February 2025

A man walks between tents for displaced Palestinians next to

World / 6 February 2025

Israel begins ‘preparations’ for the removal of Palestinians from Gaza

6 February 2025

A vendor sleeps on a hot afternoon at her shop at Market 4 i

World / 6 February 2025

World warmed to another heat record in January

6 February 2025

BRUTAL: Slaves above and below deck aboard the Albanoz, a ca

Features / 6 February 2025

The African genocide on the Middle Passage

6 February 2025

ROGER McKENZIE reflects on the enslavement, endurance and rebellion of Africans trafficked across the Atlantic and the untold sufferings of unknown ancestors

Andree Blouin, centre, Patrice Lumumba’s adviser and speec

Book Review / 5 February 2025

Lumumba’s right hand woman

5 February 2025

ROGER MCKENZIE recommends an insider's view of the fight for African independence, as experienced by an important and neglected woman

A young Palestinian kid carries jerricans along the destruct

World / 5 February 2025

‘This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple’

5 February 2025

Campaigners condemn Trump's ‘grotesque’ plans to ‘relocate’ the Palestinians in Gaza and call on British government to ‘defend international law’

Red Cross personnel load bodies of victims of the fighting b

World / 5 February 2025

Rwandan-backed M23 gain ground in eastern Congo despite calling a ceasefire

5 February 2025

Israeli soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint where the milit

World / 4 February 2025

Two Israeli soldiers killed by a Palestinian at an occupied West Bank checkpoint

4 February 2025

A magazine carrying a front cover of US President Donald Tru

World / 4 February 2025

China hits back against Trump's trade tariffs with its own

4 February 2025

Displaced Palestinians walk on a road in central Gaza to ret

World / 3 February 2025

No surprise death toll in Gaza has continued to climb, Amnesty International chief says

3 February 2025

Medics treat a man who was wounded during fighting between C

World / 3 February 2025

Hundreds of wounded continue to pour into Goma's overcrowded hospitals as fighting rages in DR Congo

3 February 2025

Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants secure the area as Red Cro

World / 31 January 2025

Latest round of hostage and prisoner releases due Saturday

31 January 2025

M23 rebels patrol the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic o

World / 31 January 2025

M23 Rebels claim they are taking their fight to Congo's capital

31 January 2025

A crowd surrounds Red Cross cars as they arrive at the site

World / 30 January 2025

Hamas frees eight hostages and Israel begins releasing 110 Palestinians prisoners

30 January 2025

World / 30 January 2025

UN reports widespread looting in Congolese city of Goma as fighting continues to rage

30 January 2025

Displaced Palestinians arrive in the northern Gaza Strip, Ja

World / 28 January 2025

Palestinians returning to north Gaza face food and aid shortages

28 January 2025

Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern

World / 27 January 2025

The great return

27 January 2025

Gazans head home as Trump slammed for 'ethnic cleansing'

People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their

World / 27 January 2025

Thousands flee Congolese city of Goma

27 January 2025

RED WRITINGS: Lenin at Work, Igor Reznik, 1970

Features / 25 January 2025

On writing as a leftist

25 January 2025

From intellectual heavyweights of the academy to organisers like me who have come to the role via a life on the shop floor, writing by leftists must centre communication — and if capable of it, even fun, writes ROGER McKENZIE

A woman looks at a display of empty chairs representing host

World / 24 January 2025

Hamas provides Israel with details of four hostages it intends to release

24 January 2025

A young girl walks in the Kaweni slum on the outskirts of Ma

World / 24 January 2025

Around 242 million children missed school last year because of the climate emergency, says UN

24 January 2025

Heavy equipment clears rubble at the site where Israeli forc

World / 23 January 2025

Israelis forces kill two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who carried out deadly bus attack

23 January 2025

SHOWMEN: Donald Trump
and JD Vance clown for the
crowd using

Features / 23 January 2025

Fighting Trump 2.0 demands no-compromise politics

23 January 2025

Corporate power would have stayed intact whether Trump or Harris won, and the Palestine genocide is endorsed by both ‘sides’ of mainstream politics — what we need instead is real, open leftism, argues ROGER McKENZIE