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NHS workers march from St Thomas' Hospital to Downing Street
Editorial / 18 November 2022
At root this crisis is a war between capital and labour
18 November 2022
Oil pump
Editorial: / 1 November 2022
Bumper BP profits and more pain for working people 
1 November 2022
Labour MP Sam Tarry being photographed as he joins Communica
Editorial: / 11 October 2022
Sam Tarry's deselection and a Labour left under siege
11 October 2022
People receive medical treatment at the scene of Russian she
Editorial / 10 October 2022
The Ukraine war grows more dangerous daily. We must revive the search for a settlement
10 October 2022
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kwasi Kwarteng leaves stage aft
Editorial: / 3 October 2022
Kwarteng's tax U-turn is a win for popular resistance – but only a partial one
3 October 2022
Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech
Editorial / 28 September 2022
A ‘lesser-of-two-evils’ Labour won't help working-class people
28 September 2022
March to New Scotland Yard, London 10th September 2022
Editorial / 11 September 2022
The police killing of Chris Kaba tells a different story about the British state to that being celebrated in the media
11 September 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss walks from the door of 10 Downing S
Editorial: / 9 September 2022
We should not stand mute while the Tories exploit a royal funeral
9 September 2022
Journalist Emily Maitlis
Editorial / 29 August 2022
Workers need their own voice – the Maitlis-BBC spat is a distraction
29 August 2022
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
Editorial / 28 August 2022
Labour misses open goal of calling for nationalisation
28 August 2022
File photo dated 03/02/22 of an online energy bill
Editorial / 10 August 2022
Soaring energy bills: a case of can't pay more than won't pay
10 August 2022
People in Parliament Square, London, take part in the People
Editorial / 9 August 2022
Rocketing energy bills are not an act of God. Politicians must be made to act
9 August 2022
File photo dated 04/07/22 of Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
Editorial / 22 July 2022
The sickening behaviour exposed in the Forde report is continued by Starmer's Labour today
22 July 2022
Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Editorial / 18 July 2022
The end of ‘levelling up’ suggests the Tories, like Labour, cannot abandon a dying neoliberal model that the public rejects
18 July 2022
British troops training at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan.
Editorial / 14 July 2022
The government has no intention of investigating British war crimes
14 July 2022
Front bench 12.7.22
Editorial: / 12 July 2022
The scabs' charter is an offence to democracy — but the labour movement can defeat it
12 July 2022
Labour leader Keir Starmer giving a speech at the Sage Gates
Editorial / 11 July 2022
Starmer's 'fresh start': a vision divorced from the realities of today's crisis
11 July 2022
Demonstrators at a removal centre at Gatwick protest against
Editorial / 14 June 2022
Resisting the Rwanda deportations means rebuilding class-conscious anti-racism
14 June 2022
People take part in an anti-Trump protest in Trafalgar Squar
Editorial: / 18 April 2025
Trump's state visit can focus left campaigns for a political alternative
18 April 2025

Building opposition into a political campaign

Daniel Kebede 17.4.25
Editorial: / 17 April 2025
Educators are at the heart of the fight against the far right
17 April 2025
US President Donald Trump holds an American football during
Editorial: / 16 April 2025
Failing at both economic war and real war, Trump’s alliances realign
16 April 2025
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds arrives as coking coal
Editorial: / 15 April 2025
Blame British Steel's crisis on privatisation, not China or Net Zero
15 April 2025
Counter protesters ahead of an anti-immigration protest in W
Editorial: / 14 April 2025
MPs rightly reject claims of ‘two-tier policing’ – now they must defend the right to protest
14 April 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to meet Briti
Editorial: / 13 April 2025
Scunthorpe's rescue is a crack in the wall Labour has erected against public ownership
13 April 2025
President Donald Trump listens to Jeff Crowe speak during an
Editorial: / 11 April 2025
Trump's 90-day pause – 90 days of blackmail, bullying and looming war
11 April 2025
People stand outside a brokerage house as an electronic boar
Editorial: / 10 April 2025
Targeting China: the naked imperialism behind Trump’s trade policy
10 April 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, second left, chairs a
Editorial: / 9 April 2025
Facing Trump's trade war, Labour is a rabbit in the headlights
9 April 2025
Palestinians wait to get donated food at a distribution cent
Editorial: / 8 April 2025
Starmer must change Gaza policy, not just words
8 April 2025
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, left, reacts with Jor
Editorial: / 7 April 2025
Le Pen: far-right but not Eurosceptic now money and power are on offer
7 April 2025
Protesters carry signs during a
Editorial: / 6 April 2025
Protests in the US show a people’s mass movement can be rebuilt
6 April 2025
Orban 4.4.25
Editorial: / 4 April 2025
Orban, Israel and the ICC: the end of the 'rules-based order'
4 April 2025
Veteran Labour politician, Tony Benn, in Grosvenor Square, L
Editorial: / 3 April 2025
Salute the memory of Tony Benn on his centenary
3 April 2025
US President Donald Trump meeting Prime Minister Keir Starme
Editorial: / 2 April 2025
Standing up to Trump – an opportunity for the left?
2 April 2025
President Donald Trump speaks at a reception celebrating Wom
Editorial: / 1 April 2025
Trump’s ‘liberation’ means war for the world
1 April 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
Starmer copies the Tories in misrepresenting migration
31 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves arrives to host a
Editorial: / 30 March 2025
The new minimum wage is still far from being a real living wage
30 March 2025
People take part in a national demonstration for Gaza from R
Editorial: / 28 March 2025
Yet more anti-protest laws: a bid to crush the peace movement
28 March 2025
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Editorial: / 27 March 2025
Reeves’s brutal Budget only serves capitalism: we must escalate the resistance
27 March 2025
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Editorial: / 26 March 2025
Reeves's austerity mark II: we are being robbed, again
26 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (center) and Defence Secreta
Editorial: / 25 March 2025
Stop Posturing, Keir, and Give Peace a Chance
25 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves arrives to meet st
Editorial: / 24 March 2025
Public services can't wear further cuts – Reeves must be stopped
24 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves lays mortar on to
Editorial: / 23 March 2025
Axe-mad Reeves aligns Britain's Labour government with Trump and Musk
23 March 2025
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally o
Editorial: / 21 March 2025
Unions must go on the offensive to reshape this country
21 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a reception to celebr
Editorial: / 20 March 2025
What is the point of Labour? The key question
20 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, L
Editorial: / 19 March 2025
Under Starmer, things can only get worse – we need to wake up
19 March 2025
People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London,
Editorial: / 18 March 2025
We must take to the streets to protest these fresh Israeli massacres
18 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking to the media in Dow
Editorial: / 17 March 2025
‘Schrodinger’s Russian threat’ fails to convince MPs to back Starmer's militarism
17 March 2025
Smoke rises from a location reportedly struck by U.S. airstr
Editorial: / 16 March 2025
Barbaric US attacks on Yemen risk a major Middle Eastern war
16 March 2025
Odessa massacre
Editorial: / 14 March 2025
From Odessa to Syria, beware the West's 'democratic' allies
14 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a Q&A session after deliv
Editorial: / 13 March 2025
Whose state? Starmer’s speech solves nothing for a country in crisis
13 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, L
Editorial: / 12 March 2025
Build the revolt against Starmer's war on disabled people
12 March 2025
Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads ‘DOGE’ to the m
Editorial: / 11 March 2025
Ban Elon Musk’s money from manipulating any hard-right split
11 March 2025
Ukrainian soldiers train at the military training ground in
Editorial / 10 March 2025
More ‘gambling with World War III’ as Zelensky makes another desperate bid for support
10 March 2025
a PostNord van on the road in Denmark
Editorial: / 9 March 2025
PostNord shows us why we must fight for the concept of public services
9 March 2025
Women's rights campaigners in Westminster, London after taki
Editorial: / 8 March 2025
Women's liberation and liberalism's collapse: left dilemmas
8 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer waits to welcome European le
Editorial: / 6 March 2025
The left and the unions must oppose any arms spending hike
6 March 2025
Stock photo of a sex worker approaching a car in Victoria, L
Editorial: / 5 March 2025
Decriminalisation of prostitution does not help women and girls
5 March 2025
People breach a police line whilst taking part in a national
Editorial: / 4 March 2025
Unite against Palestine protest clampdown
4 March 2025
University graduates
Editorial: / 4 March 2025
Our marketised higher education system is unsustainable
4 March 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Sir K
Editorial: / 2 March 2025
Starmer's dangerous delusions on Trump and Ukraine
2 March 2025
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starme
Editorial: / 28 February 2025
Trump, Starmer and fighting the far right: learn from past mistakes
28 February 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech during a welc
Editorial: / 27 February 2025
As Trump backs away from the brink, Starmer bids to lead the war party
27 February 2025
People taking part in a Cop28 London march protest outside B
Editorial: / 26 February 2025
BP's ecological vandalism is capitalist business as usual. So end it
26 February 2025
Britain's Prime Minster Keir Starmer speaks to guests as he
Editorial: / 25 February 2025
Dystopia beckons as Starmer puts guns and empire first
25 February 2025
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-rigt Alternative for Germ
Editorial: / 24 February 2025
Green shoots amid the doom loop? Lessons from Germany
24 February 2025
Servicemen stand at the end of the Steadfast Dart 2025 exerc
Editorial: / 23 February 2025
The war in Ukraine is winding down, yet the European war drive continues
23 February 2025
Ukrainian soldiers fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled
Editorial: / 21 February 2025
The working class cannot afford militarism – work for peace instead
21 February 2025
Campaigners take part in a protest against the government's
Editorial: / 20 February 2025
The stark division in modern capitalist Britain – people or profits
20 February 2025
A general view of a central heating thermostat
Editorial: / 20 February 2025
We need public ownership and price controls to end the energy rip-off
20 February 2025
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after landing at
Editorial: / 18 February 2025
Trump's bid for Ukraine's resources reveals harsh truths about this war
18 February 2025
United States Vice-President JD Vance (second right) and Uni
Editorial: / 17 February 2025
The US Ukraine U-turn should prompt a real debate on war policy
17 February 2025
Gaza protest
Editorial: / 14 February 2025
Marching for Palestine – more vital than ever in the era of Trump
14 February 2025
The office building is seen destroyed after a Russian attack
Editorial / 13 February 2025
Labour must not block Ukraine peace plan
13 February 2025
A train crosses over the Ribblehead Viaduct with the snow ca
Editorial: / 13 February 2025
Railways need full return to public ownership
13 February 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, L
Editorial: / 12 February 2025
Double standards on refugees: the Trump-Starmer conundrum
12 February 2025
Parliament
Editorial / 11 February 2025
Fight or flight? Choices for socialists in Parliament
11 February 2025
Paul NOwak
Editorial / 10 February 2025
Employment Bill is a small step forward but it's not nearly enough
10 February 2025
A firefighter runs through a practice drill during a London
Editorial: / 10 February 2025
Further fire service cuts expose a government in denial
10 February 2025
People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally on
Editorial: / 7 February 2025
Palestine solidarity: the crucible of a left-wing fightback
7 February 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Editorial: / 6 February 2025
Reform polling must be a wake-up call
6 February 2025
A view of Gaza City after Israel's destruction, February 4,
Editorial: / 5 February 2025
Trump's ethnic cleansing plan: Britain is already complicit
5 February 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference
Editorial: / 4 February 2025
Starmer's Trump abasement is no victory
4 February 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at a bilateral meeting with
Editorial: / 3 February 2025
Neither Washington nor Brussels...
3 February 2025
President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International A
Editorial: / 2 February 2025
Trump, trade wars and Labour's ‘growth’ delusion
2 February 2025
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Editorial: / 31 January 2025
Fighting the far right means confronting the Labour government too
31 January 2025
Palestinians who have returned inspect their houses, which w
Editorial: / 30 January 2025
No time to slacken Palestine solidarity
30 January 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives a speech on economic growth a
Editorial: / 29 January 2025
Reeves's growth plan repeats the failed policies of all recent governments
29 January 2025
The smartphone apps DeepSeek page is seen on a smartphone sc
Editorial: / 28 January 2025
Chinese AI advance threatens US hegemony
28 January 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Editorial: / 27 January 2025
Labour’s unpopularity problem is due to its anti-people politics
27 January 2025
Nazi soldiers separate Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwi
Editorial: / 26 January 2025
Return to the real history and real lessons of the Holocaust
26 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Labour Part
Editorial: / 24 January 2025
Reeves's Labour is joining the corporate war on democracy
24 January 2025
Defence Secretary John Healey meets British personnel at the
Editorial / 23 January 2025
Reject Labour’s ever-spiralling war psychosis
23 January 2025
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall speaking to the medi
Editorial: / 22 January 2025
Benefit fraud hysteria demonises the sick – and threatens all our rights
22 January 2025
Police officers watch as people take part in a national marc
Editorial: / 21 January 2025
Gaza protest clampdown shows imperialism threatens freedom at home
21 January 2025
President-elect Donald Trump dances with The Village People
Editorial: / 20 January 2025
Trump, Nato and war: the socialist response
20 January 2025
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Khalid Abdalla (front
Editorial: / 19 January 2025
The arrest of Palestine marchers is an attack on free speech
19 January 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (centre) convened
Editorial: / 17 January 2025
Despite the horrifying death toll exacted, this was not total victory for Netanyahu
17 January 2025
Palestinian children play at a tent camp for displaced Pales
Editorial: / 16 January 2025
After the ceasefire, pressure must grow to end the occupation
16 January 2025
Broken clocks
Editorial: / 15 January 2025
Rising unpaid overtime and Britain’s economic woes
15 January 2025
23/09/24 of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
Editorial: / 14 January 2025
Mass action is needed to halt Rachel Reeves’s suicide mission
14 January 2025
Estate agents To Let and For Sale signs in Islington, north
Editorial: / 13 January 2025
For an answer to the housing crisis, it helps to turn to Marx
13 January 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meeting Chancellor of the Ex
Editorial: / 12 January 2025
Labour’s billions meant for public services and climate change now hang in the balance
12 January 2025
an elderly lady sitting at home in Liverpool with her electr
Editorial: / 10 January 2025
As Britain freezes, thanks to Reeves, so do its most vulnerable citizens
10 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves steps from 11 Down
Editorial: / 9 January 2025
Labour’s cuts spell danger ahead as Starmer's growth fantasy hits the wall
9 January 2025
President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference
Editorial: / 8 January 2025
As Trump shockwaves shake the West, can the left take advantage?
8 January 2025
Palestinian children play next to buildings destroyed by Isr
Editorial: / 7 January 2025
We can and must force the government to change course on Israel
7 January 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to medical staff and
Editorial / 6 January 2025
Starmer's private healthcare fixation puts ideology before patients
6 January 2025
Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk during the opening plenary
Editorial: / 5 January 2025
The Musk-inspired media war on Starmer - time for a left response
5 January 2025
Then prime minister Rishi Sunak (left) and Elon Musk, CEO of
Editorial: / 3 January 2025
Child abuse should not be weaponised by racists, Tories - or Elon Musk
3 January 2025
Amazon staff members on a GMB union picket line outside the
Editorial: / 2 January 2025
Class politics is the answer to democratic crisis
2 January 2025
waspi women
Editorial / 31 December 2024
The left can offer better than a choice between Starmer and Farage
31 December 2024
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage holds up a banner during a pro
Editorial: / 30 December 2024
Reform's growing membership can only be countered at the grassroots
30 December 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer gestures as he speaks during the
Editorial: / 29 December 2024
Fighting Starmer to defend our public services will define 2025
29 December 2024
Relatives and friends mourn over the bodies of five Palestin
Editorial: / 27 December 2024
The West won't rein in Israel, because its savagery is ours
27 December 2024
People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London
Editorial: / 23 December 2024
Stand up for peace in a world on the brink
23 December 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during his meeting with the
Editorial: / 22 December 2024
Starmer isn't working – and Starmerism cannot work
22 December 2024
Peter Mandelson, British Labour politician, arrives at a mem
Editorial: / 20 December 2024
Appointing Mandelson ambassador to Trump is cynical and dangerous
20 December 2024
Rajani PD
Editorial: / 20 December 2024
Remembering Rajani Palme Dutt, 50 years on
20 December 2024
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Editorial: / 18 December 2024
Cruel, dishonest and inept: Labour's Waspi debacle
18 December 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a press conference on
Editorial: / 17 December 2024
Labour’s talking tough on migration won’t outflank Reform
17 December 2024
The union flag and the flag of the People's republic of Chin
Editorial: / 16 December 2024
Beware the latest wave of anti-China hysteria
16 December 2024
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to D
Editorial: / 15 December 2024
Confront anti-immigrant hate to prevent atrocities like that in Dunkirk
15 December 2024
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband during a
Editorial: / 13 December 2024
Labour's green transition must cut the cost of living to prevent a right-wing backlash
13 December 2024
a general view of chimneys on a row of terraced residential
Editorial / 12 December 2024
Labour's housing plan comes up short
12 December 2024
A Syrian opposition fighter takes a picture of a comrade ste
Editorial: / 11 December 2024
Israel, Syria and the peace movement: we must not be divided
11 December 2024
Opposition supporters carry opposition flags along the Al-Ha
Editorial: / 10 December 2024
Britain must learn lessons of Iraq and stay out of Syria entirely
10 December 2024
TikTok 9.12.24
Editorial: / 9 December 2024
Romania's annulled election sets a dangerous precedent for Europe
9 December 2024
Syrians celebrate the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad'
Editorial: / 8 December 2024
Assad’s downfall was part of imperialism’s region-wide plan
8 December 2024
French Prime Minister Michel Barnier gets applause from mini
Editorial: / 6 December 2024
The collapse of the centre in France has its parallels in Britain
6 December 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech in Buckingham
Editorial: / 5 December 2024
Another set of meaningless milestones: Starmer’s desperate relaunch falls flat
5 December 2024
Elon Musk speaks at a campaign rally for Donald Trump, Octob
Editorial: / 4 December 2024
Reform UK, Musk's millions and the question of democracy
4 December 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during the annual Lord Mayor
Editorial: / 3 December 2024
Capitalist state cannot be rewired
3 December 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a join
Editorial: / 2 December 2024
Even Zelensky is now indicating Ukraine cannot keep fighting
2 December 2024
Opposition forces take control of areas outside Aleppo, Syri
Editorial: / 1 December 2024
Syria's reigniting civil war has been kept simmering by the Nato powers
1 December 2024
People take part in a demonstration at Old Palace Yard in We
Editorial: / 29 November 2024
The dangerous road to assisted death
29 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a press conference on
Editorial: / 29 November 2024
How should the left respond to the media war on Labour?
29 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech during a visi
Editorial: / 28 November 2024
Labour’s tax promises unravel as its big business agenda wins out
28 November 2024
Campaigners protest outside Parliament in Westminster, Londo
Editorial: / 27 November 2024
The assisted suicide Bill's ‘safeguards’ don't protect the vulnerable
27 November 2024
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at meeting of the House
Editorial: / 26 November 2024
Neither ‘free trade’ nor protection but socialism
26 November 2024
A general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward a
Editorial: / 26 November 2024
Unions are right: the NHS pay review body should bite the dust
26 November 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with
Editorial: / 24 November 2024
A cruel campaign against benefit claimants won't solve Britain's health crisis
24 November 2024
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmake
Editorial: / 22 November 2024
Netanyahu's arrest warrant is a nightmare for Starmer
22 November 2024
The Storm Shadow cruise missile is on display during the Par
Editorial: / 21 November 2024
Lurching towards the precipice over Ukraine
21 November 2024
Farmers protest in central London over the changes to inheri
Editorial: / 20 November 2024
A left vision for agriculture would spike the big landowners' guns
20 November 2024
President Joe Biden, right, listens as Ukraine's President V
Editorial: / 19 November 2024
Biden’s crazed gambit allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory brings world closer to superpower conflict
19 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting w
Editorial: / 18 November 2024
Co-operation between Britain and China is an absolute necessity
18 November 2024
A woman mourns over the bodies of victims from an Israeli ai
Editorial: / 17 November 2024
As the atrocities mount in Gaza, so does Labour’s disgrace
17 November 2024
People walking near the Bank of England
Editorial / 15 November 2024
Bosses ‘go slow’ threatens to derail the Labour project
15 November 2024
US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during an America Fir
Editorial: / 14 November 2024
De-dollarisation advances the cause of global peace and threatens the Trump agenda
14 November 2024
A screen displaying the Azerbaijan flag sits near power line
Editorial: / 13 November 2024
COPout: capitalism is unwilling and unable to save the planet
13 November 2024