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WARFARE NOT WELFARE: Defence Secretary John Healey, in a red tie, at the Warminster Garrison, Wiltshire, after £5 billion investment in innovative capabilities, including drones and Directed Energy Weapons is announced, June 2025
Features / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report to the Communist Party’s executive committee meeting last weekend. Here is the second of two articles based on his address

WORKING CLASS SOLIDARITY: Pickets mass outside the Rupert Murdoch's new News International printing plant in support of the print unions on February 22 1986
Workers' Rights / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge

 A crowd walks to the US consulate to protest against Trump's policy towards Greenland in Nuuk, Greenland, January 17, 2026
Features / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

Donald Trump’s bid to seize Greenland has exposed the deep hypocrisy at the heart of Nato, the EU and US foreign policy, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

Demonstrators clash with police in Wapping, east London, February 16, 1986
Timeline / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

A step-by-step account of how Rupert Murdoch’s clandestine move to Wapping triggered one of the longest and most brutal industrial disputes in modern Britain, marked by secret deals, mass sackings, unprecedented policing and lasting consequences for trade unionism and the press

LEGEND: (L to R) Gareth Miles in December 2021; Cymdeithas yr Iaith's first protest on Trefechan Bridge, Aberystwyth on January 7 1963 / Pics: (L to R) Eiry Miles/CC; Geoff Charles/CC
Features / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

MEIC BIRTWISTLE offers an appreciation of the renaissance man GARETH MILES

Crowds assembled in Trafalgar Square, London, for the union rally in support of the workers sacked in the print union dispute with Rupert Murdoch's News International, April 6, 1986
Workers' Rights / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

SHARON GRAHAM reflects on the lessons of Murdoch’s confrontation with print workers – and argues that, in an age of AI, automation and net zero, only early organisation, collective power and planning can stop history repeating itself

RESIST, RESIST, RESIST: Jim Martinez, center, and Jamila Rice, right in yellow, of Bay Resistance, at the San Francisco Free America Walkout, an anti-ICE protest on Tuesday, January 20 / Pic:Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via AP
Features / 22 January 2026
22 January 2026

ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report to the Communist Party's executive committee meeting last weekend. Here is the first of two articles based on his address

ETHNIC STRIFE: Women condemn, yesterday, a video in circulation that allegedly shows a fighter affiliated with the Syrian government holding the braid of a Kurdish female fighter after killing her, in Qamishli, northeastern Syria
Middle East / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026

VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)

SAME OLD SAME OLD: The USS Saratoga became the fist aircraft carrier to pull up pierside at Diego Garcia in December 1985 / Pic: PD Goodrich/CC
Middle East / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026

Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN

Protesters outside the main gate of Rupert Murdoch's News International plant at Wapping, East London, January 25, 1986
Workers' Rights / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all

SHOWING NO FEAR: Cubans file past the US Embassy on January 16 holding a banner: ‘Listen Rubio, listen Trumpeta (Loudmouth) stop hussling us, our people will be respected’
Features / 23 January 2026
23 January 2026

The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign

Union members marching in Fleet Street on their way to the News International plant in Wapping, following a rally in Trafalgar Square in support of the print workers sacked in the dispute with Rupert Murdoch
Workers' Rights / 24 January 2026
24 January 2026

The newly catalogued News International Dispute Archive ensures the history of the Wapping dispute – and the solidarity it inspired – is preserved, accessible and alive for future generations, says MATT DUNNE