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Museum strike. Photo: Henry Fowler
Features / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

By Henry Fowler, co-founder of Strike Map

DRONING UP: German chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy inspect drones made in German-Ukrainian cooperation in Berlin on Tuesday
Features / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

By signing strategic defence agreements with Ukraine, the German government has reached a new dimension of war involvement, says SEVIM DAGDELEN

Policing / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

Palestinian students walk to school along a fence separating their village from a nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Carmel, which forces them to take an alternative route nearly twice as long, near the West Bank village of Umm al-Khair, April 14, 2026
Middle East / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING 

Jeremy Corbyn speaking as he closes the Your Party founding two day conference at the ACC Liverpool, November 30, 2025
Opinion / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026

Your Party’s new membership rules pose a deeper question about socialist organisation: should a party lead the working class, or be led by it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the village of Henniyeh, as it is seen from the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanon, April 15, 2026
Middle East / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026

As war engulfs Iran, many expected China to step in as a rising superpower. Instead, Beijing has chosen diplomacy over confrontation – revealing a very different vision of global leadership, argues JENNY CLEGG

Features / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026

Mass strikes over cost-of-living protections have escalated into a broader confrontation over democracy, after the government moved to impose a pay freeze by decree, writes KIVANC ELIACIK

Artist Frank Bowling at the launch of his new exhibition Seeking the Sublime, at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which charts his career from the early 1960s to Yellow Map (2025), a major new painting being shown publicly for the first time. Picture date: Wednesday March 25, 2026
Culture / 16 April 2026
16 April 2026

Born from exclusion and resistance, black British art has carved out creative space to tell untold stories and challenge racism, says ROGER McKENZIE

Israeli bulldozers demolish homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, April 12, 2026
Middle East / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD

Police remove a protester at a demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action, in Trafalgar Square, central London, April 11, 2026
History / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement

Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government Steve Reed arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London, to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, March 22, 2026
Eyes Left / 15 April 2026
15 April 2026

The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY

Pupils in a classroom
Features / 14 April 2026
14 April 2026

Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports