The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL

NEIRLAY ANDRADE, a member of the Communist Party of Venezuela’s political committee, outlines her party’s position on the crisis facing the country

DAVID HORSLEY remembers the remarkable life and death of US black revolutionary George Jackson, whose politically passionate prison letters were published as Soledad Brother

A look at Taylor Wimpey’s accounts shows why Labour’s market-led housing strategy won’t deliver more, cheaper homes, as promised, says SOLOMON HUGHES

A part of the British empire’s network of slavery, today the Caribbean island of Nevis faces a new form of exploitation in the form of crypto-colonialism, CLAUDIA WEBBE writes

Cuban trade union federation CTC leader OSNAY MIGUEL COLINA speaks to Ben Chacko about life and work under a crippling US siege

A new book by Victoria Holmes illuminates the many hidden histories of the oppression experienced by Gypsy/Roma/Traveller community, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Even the oligarchs of the artificial intelligence industries are warning that their creations have the capacity for the ultimate destruction of the planet and its population. ANDREW MURRAY suggests that there might just be other solutions

ALEX GORDON, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain, calls on Britain’s trade unionists to redouble solidarity with the socialist island

Collective bargaining, a single status of worker and the right to take solidarity action key themes of packed Institute of Employment Rights-Campaign for Trade Union Freedom fringe meeting at TUC 2026

The rise of the far right on the one hand and the emergence of a new style of Labour leadership on the other, create similar challenges and opportunities for unions in Scotland and beyond, argues DAVE MOXHAM

If Labour is genuinely committed to supporting working-class students it must act urgently to reverse the funding crisis affecting universities and colleges, JO GRADY tells Christophe Domec