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US President Donald Trump signs the charter of his Board of Peace initiative at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026
Middle East / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026

Framed as post-war reconstruction, it cements foreign control, bypasses Palestinian self-determination and models a new form of neocolonial domination disguised as development, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz attends the opening of the annual Alasita Fair in La Paz, Bolivia, January 24, 2026
Latin America / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026

Journalists and opposition politicians have described the decision to remove TeleSur from national TV programming as censorship against alternative and critical journalism, reports PABLO MERIGUET

The entrance to Birkenau concentration camp
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026

Eighty-one years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the threat of far-right extremism is resurging – the lessons of history demand unity, organisation and resistance, argues SABBY DHALU

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during his visit to the Nelson Medical Practice health centre in Wimbledon, south west London, January 26, 2026
Media / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026

As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR

Shoes at Auschwitz during commemorations in Poland to mark 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camp on 27th January 1945, January 27, 2025
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026

On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES

Auschwitz-Birkenau
Holocaust Memorial Day 2026 / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026

On Holocaust Memorial Day STEVE SILVER warns that the ‘double genocide’ theory and modern ‘revisionism’ are not just historical errors, but calculated tools for rehabilitating fascist ideology

MSPs at the Scottish Parliament as Finance Secretary Shona Robison announces the draft Budget for 2026-27 in Holyrood, Edinburgh, January 13, 2026
Voices of Scotland / 27 January 2026
27 January 2026

From the radical promise of early land reform to today’s cautious Community Wealth Building Bill, Scotland’s Parliament has lost sight of its founding ambition to shift power and ownership, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP

A protester is pepper sprayed at close range while being detained near the site of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026
US Politics / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026

A nurse dies as US immigration agents are ready to hunt down “everyone,” a US senator is told, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Ann Field introduces the conference
History / 25 January 2026
25 January 2026

Strike veterans and trade unionists found many parallels between Rupert Murdoch’s attack on the print unions and today’s democratic struggles, reports BEN CHACKO

Tommy Robinson and Matteo Salvini
Features / 25 January 2026
25 January 2026

ALFIO BERNABEI says an Italian minister meeting the British far-right agitator in his ministerial office is an ominous sign of the times

FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice on top of the Central Crimina
Features / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026

The government’s case for abolishing most jury trials doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, argues KIM JOHNSON MP – and it must be stopped before it does lasting damage to democracy

Jeremy Corbyn speaking during the Your Party founding conference at the ACC Liverpool, November 30, 2025
Your Party / 26 January 2026
26 January 2026

Former Labour MP LAURA SMITH makes the case for The Many slate in the elections to Your Party’s new executive