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Editorial: / 26 September 2025
Digital ID cards are a threat to us all – and demand a left-led fightback against the authoritarian state
26 September 2025
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, May 14, 2025
Editorial / 25 September 2025
Burnham’s Labour leadership pitch requires scrutiny
25 September 2025
A crowd of people watching the setting sun from a hill in Ealing, west London
Editorial / 24 September 2025
Richer nations act with impunity as sea levels and war spending rise
24 September 2025
People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London, organised by a number of groups under the Palestine Coalition banner, March 15, 2025
Editorial / 23 September 2025
Britain’s recognition of a Palestinian state is only the first step
23 September 2025
Party leader Nigel Farage during a Reform UK press conference at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, London, September 22, 2025
Editorial / 22 September 2025
Farage’s anti-migrant shocker is also about crushing his real hate: the welfare state
22 September 2025
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, as they take to picket lines for six days during their continuing dispute over pay, January 3, 2024
Editorial / 20 September 2025
The ground for a new party of the left has been laid by the unions
20 September 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Editorial / 19 September 2025
Healing this rift is the hope of the thousands who believe in a better world
19 September 2025
People taking part in a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in Trafalgar Square, central London, September 13, 2025
Editorial / 18 September 2025
The left must understand and challenge the right’s demagogy
18 September 2025
(left to right) Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Queen Camilla, King Charles III, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump during a Beating Retreat military ceremony at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, September 17, 2025
Editorial / 17 September 2025
The art of the bad deal: Starmer chases the ghost of the ‘special relationship’
17 September 2025
Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 22, 2024
Editorial / 16 September 2025
As Starmer faces the axe, there are questions for Lucy Powell
16 September 2025
People demonstrate during the Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in London, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025
Editorial: / 15 September 2025
Finding points of unity for the anti-fascist movement
15 September 2025
People taking part in a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in Parliament Square, central London, September 13, 2025
Editorial / 14 September 2025
We have the numbers to tackle the new far right in our local communities
14 September 2025
People take part in a Stand Up to Racism protest in Epping, Essex, entitled Defend Refugees - Stop the Far Right - No to Fascist Tommy Robinson, following protests outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping, believed to be housing asylum seekers, where there have been a number of demonstrations, after police charged 38-year-old asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu with sexual assault following an incident where he is alleged to have attempted to kiss a 14-year-old girl. Picture date: Sunday July 27, 2025
Editorial: / 12 September 2025
The left must defeat the far right, because Labour certainly won’t
12 September 2025
Then Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) with then Hartlepool MP and former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Mandelson meeting pupils at the City Learning at Dyke House School in Hartlepool, September 7, 2001
Editorial / 11 September 2025
Mandelson might be gone, but the stench remains
11 September 2025
F35 fighters on the flight deck of HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy's flagship aircraft carrier, in Plymouth, Devon, ahead of an eight-month deployment to the Indo-Pacific region on Operation Highmast, April 24, 2025
Editorial / 11 September 2025
TUC Congress is right to reject arms spending surge
11 September 2025
Campaigners from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign take part in a protest outside Downing Street, London, to oppose the upcoming visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, September 9, 2025
Editorial / 10 September 2025
Hosting Herzog, Starmer endorses an Israel driving the world towards total war
10 September 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during the first meeting for the reshuffled Cabinet in Downing Street, London, September 9, 2025
Editorial / 9 September 2025
Labour members deserve deputy leadership choice
9 September 2025
President Donald Trump speaks as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, September 5, 2025, in Washington
Editorial / 8 September 2025
‘Defence’ spending or war? With Trump the mask is off
8 September 2025
Police officers remove a protester as demonstrators take part in a Lift the Ban on Palestine Action protest organised by Defend our Juries in Parliament Square in London. Picture date: Saturday September 6, 2025
Editorial / 7 September 2025
Defend Our Juries is right — mass arrests for Palestine can be a poll tax moment
7 September 2025
People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, August 30, 2025
Editorial / 5 September 2025
Unions need militancy and unity to seize the political initiative from the right
5 September 2025
Elizabeth Tower, part of the Palace of Westminster, is seen with a Metropolitan Police officer in Parliament Square, London
Editorial / 4 September 2025
The left must defend free speech
4 September 2025
Military personnel take part in a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025
Editorial / 3 September 2025
Beijing’s victory parade is a reminder: the world does not belong to, or revolve around, the West
3 September 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Horiba Mira in Nuneaton, to mark the launch of the Government's Industrial Strategy, June 23, 2025
Editorial / 2 September 2025
The buck stops with Starmer, but Reeves is a convenient scapegoat
2 September 2025
St George's flags fly from lampposts in Highters Heath in south Birmingham, August 27, 2025
Editorial / 1 September 2025
This campaign of flag-raising is an organised far-right offensive
1 September 2025
Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN general assembly last year
Editorial / 31 August 2025
Banning Palestinians from the UN is an abuse of US power with grim implications
31 August 2025
Protesters hold placards during a demonstration held by the London Freelance branch of the National Union of Journalists to honour journalists killed in Gaza, opposite Downing Street in London, August 27, 2025
Editorial / 29 August 2025
Israel seeks to silence the truth by targeting journalists
29 August 2025
People take part in a Stand Up To Racism rally outside the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Horley, Surrey, August 23, 2025
Editorial / 28 August 2025
To defeat the far right, build a class-conscious left
28 August 2025
A tanker from Thames Water
Editorial / 27 August 2025
The neoliberal model of privatised water is sunk
27 August 2025
Nigel Farage
Editorial / 26 August 2025
We must unite communities against Farage’s mass deportations plan
26 August 2025
People demonstrating at an Abolish Asylum System protest outside the Radisson Hotel in Perth, August 23, 2025
Editorial / 25 August 2025
The US is promoting incendiary far-right politics in Britain
25 August 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attends the national Service of Remembrance, hosted by the Royal British Legion in partnership with the Government, to mark the 80th Anniversary of VJ Day at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Picture date: Friday August 15, 2025
Editorial / 24 August 2025
Labour’s opponents write...
24 August 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, July 31, 2025
Editorial / 22 August 2025
Open defiance of the preposterous abuse of the Terrorism Act is growing
22 August 2025
A man walks past a mural depicting the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, with a message that reads in Arabic,
Editorial / 21 August 2025
The mocking of Marwan Barghouti showed Israel’s genocidal intentions
21 August 2025
Police officers outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping, July 31, 2025
Editorial / 20 August 2025
The far right has now won a significant victory against asylum-seekers
20 August 2025
President Donald Trump (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, August 15, 2025
Editorial / 19 August 2025
Trump understands Putin’s position better than European leaders
19 August 2025
Israeli soldiers sit on the top of tank parked on an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025
Editorial: / 18 August 2025
It is time for our government to finally sanction Israel
18 August 2025
President Donald Trump (right) Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, August 15, 2025
Editorial / 17 August 2025
The Alaska talks and the need to escalate the peace movement
17 August 2025
Civilians and service personnel in London's Piccadilly Circus celebrate the news of Allied Victory over Japan in August 1945
Editorial: / 15 August 2025
VJ day – honour the cause of peace amid the drive to war
15 August 2025
US vice president JD Vance playing golf at Trump Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, during his visit to the UK. Picture date: Thursday August 14, 2025
Editorial: / 14 August 2025
Hypocritical US ‘free speech’ concerns are an opportunity for the left to reclaim that vital cause
14 August 2025
Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting Soviet Leader Josef Stalin, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and U.S. President Donald Trump are displayed for sale at a souvenir shop in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025
Editorial: / 13 August 2025
Nato splinters as Trump and Putin edge toward a peace deal for Ukraine
13 August 2025
a Doctor holding a stethoscope
Editorial: / 12 August 2025
Why is violence against NHS staff – and other essential workers – on the rise?
12 August 2025
Donald Trump
Editorial / 11 August 2025
Trump, the EU and the Alaska summit
11 August 2025
Rushanara Ali
Editorial: / 10 August 2025
The Rushanara Ali case is a spotlight on a broken housing sector
10 August 2025
An Israeli tank moves near the border of the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, August 6, 2025
Editorial / 8 August 2025
People power can shatter Israel’s sense of impunity
8 August 2025
Palestinian flag RCJ
Editorial / 7 August 2025
All power to those defying censorship and repression of Palestine solidarity
7 August 2025
Bonfires are lit along the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome during a remembrance ceremony in Hiroshima, August 5, 2025 on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing
Editorial / 6 August 2025
80 years after Hiroshima, the taboo on nuclear war is dangerously eroded
6 August 2025
Trucks loaded with container move through a container terminal port in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Editorial: / 5 August 2025
Take leaves out of the book of Chinese economic and social planning
5 August 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Rolls Royce at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, July 25, 2025
Editorial / 4 August 2025
Reeves’s Corbyn jibes show up a government in denial
4 August 2025
People walk down a street surrounded by buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in the Gaza Strip, July 29, 2025
Editorial / 3 August 2025
Israeli extremism, Western hypocrisy and Palestinian statehood
3 August 2025
President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the East Room of the White House, February 13, 2025, in Washington
Editorial / 1 August 2025
Trump’s tariff frenzy: time to end the abusive relationship with Washington
1 August 2025
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, ahead of a march from the hospital to Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2023
Editorial / 31 July 2025
Looming NHS disputes could change the political weather
31 July 2025
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in London, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gathered senior ministers for an urgent Cabinet meeting on Gaza. It comes as the Prime Minister faces renewed pressure to recognise Palestine as a state immediately and after he held an emergency call with France and Germany at the weekend. Picture date: Tuesday July 29, 2025
Editorial: / 30 July 2025
Starmer and Palestine – redouble the pressure
30 July 2025
An aerial view of terraced houses in south west London
Editorial / 29 July 2025
Capitalism’s inbuilt features are the source of the housing crisis
29 July 2025
Defence Secretary John Healey during a visit to the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier during the Talisman Sabre 2025 Closing Ceremony in Darwin, Australia, July 27, 2025
Editorial / 28 July 2025
Why Britain should not be rattling sabres at China over Taiwan
28 July 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (left), Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South and Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) (right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station. Picture date: Thursday August 18, 2022
Editorial: / 27 July 2025
Huge enthusiasm for a new socialist party shows the left never went away
27 July 2025
Bin lorries reverse back into the depot at the Birmingham megapicket. Photo: Neil Terry Photography
Editorial / 25 July 2025
Mega pickets and mass defiance are overcoming decades of anti-union laws
25 July 2025
Members of Unite on the picket line in Tyseley, Birmingham, amid an ongoing refuse workers' strike in the city, April 1, 2025
Editorial / 24 July 2025
Birmingham’s bin strike becomes a battle for the entire working class
24 July 2025
Police officers and protesters on Hemnall Street in Epping, after a protest outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. There have been a number of demonstrations outside the hotel, believed to be housing asylum seekers, since police charged 38-year-old asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu with sexual assault following an incident where he is alleged to have attempted to kiss a 14-year-old girl. Picture date: Sunday July 20, 2025
Editorial: / 23 July 2025
Strategic thought is needed to hone anti-fascist campaigning
23 July 2025
Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting, July 22, 2025
Editorial / 22 July 2025
‘Appalled’ and ‘sickened?’ David Lammy’s hand-wringing on Gaza fools no-one
22 July 2025
Vivian Figueiredo (right), cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, looks across at a mosaic of Jean outside Stockwell Tube station in south London where he was shot dead by police, July 22, 2009
Editorial / 21 July 2025
Twenty years since police executed Jean-Charles de Menezes with impunity
21 July 2025
Metropolitan Police officers remove a person at a protest in Parliament Square, central London, in support of Palestine Action, organised by Defend Our Juries who are campaigning to de-proscribe the organisation, July 19, 2025
Editorial / 20 July 2025
Welcome to modern Britain, where spilling paint is ‘terrorism’ but spilling the blood of thousands isn’t
20 July 2025
Diane Abbott speaking at the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025
Editorial / 18 July 2025
Starmer’s punishment of Diane Abbott won’t quell the rising resistance
18 July 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in Downing Street, London, on his first official visit to the UK. Picture date: Thursday July 17, 2025
Editorial / 17 July 2025
Purge of dissenting MPs is a sign of Starmer’s weakness
17 July 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners stage a protest on College Green in Westminster, London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget in the Houses of Parliament, October 30, 2024
Editorial / 16 July 2025
The rich are a threat to our economy and our democracy
16 July 2025
(left to right) Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during the concert celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, May 8, 2025
Editorial / 15 July 2025
New left party’s polling a wake-up call for Labour
15 July 2025
An Israeli army vehicle moves along the border of the Gaza strip, as seen from a southern Israel location, July 13, 2025
Editorial / 14 July 2025
The Bogota summit shows it is not the West that stands for a rules-based order
14 July 2025
LGSM members take part in the march at the Durham Miners' Gala, July 13, 2025
Editorial: / 13 July 2025
Against the government, against Reform: for class politics
13 July 2025
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner speaking during the Local Government Association annual conference at the ACC Liverpool, King's Dock, Port of Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday July 3, 2025
Editorial: / 11 July 2025
Unite suspending Rayner over Birmingham bin betrayal is a sign of changing times
11 July 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (centre) and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) look at screens during a joint military visit to the MARCOM centre, maritime command centre in Northwood, London, July 10, 2025
Editorial / 10 July 2025
Fear of ‘America First’ revives the Entente Imperiale, and raises the risk of nuclear annihilation
10 July 2025
FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice standing atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London
Editorial / 9 July 2025
Austerity’s authoritarian trajectory: why jury trials are under attack
9 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Horiba Mira in Nuneaton, to mark the launch of the Government's Industrial Strategy, June 23, 2025
Editorial / 8 July 2025
Labour left must build on win on disability benefits
8 July 2025
Members of the press take photographs of wreaths laid by the Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the 7/7 Memorial, in Hyde Park, London, to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in London on July 7th 2005 that killed 52 people. Picture date: Monday July 7, 2025
Editorial / 7 July 2025
Britain and the West’s murky relationship with jihadist terror
7 July 2025