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THE GREAT PRETENDER: Labour leadership contender Keir Starmer speaks on post-Brexit challenges at Westminster Cathedral Hall in London in Janruary 2020
Labour Party / 11 February 2026
11 February 2026

Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era

Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson, September 7, 2001
Labour Party / 11 February 2026
11 February 2026

The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP

A vaccination campaign targeting those born in 2022 who have reached the age of 2, who will be given a single dose of the Cuban vaccine Quimi-Vio - it protects against meningitis, pneumonia, and acute otitis media / Pic: https://www.radiorebelde.cu
Science and Society / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

The growth of Cuba’s biotechnology sector is an example of how socialism can prioritise scientific innovation, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer adjusts his glasses as he waits to deliver his speech during a visit to Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonard's on Sea near Hastings, East Sussex, February 5, 2026
Politics / 9 February 2026
9 February 2026

Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during the Labour business conference at Canary Wharf, London, which brings together Labour politicians and senior representatives from the world of business to discuss Labour's plans to reboot British's economy, December 8, 2022
Politics / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON

China
History / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution

 

US President Donald Trump and Britain's then ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, May 8, 2025
Features / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG

President Donald Trump listens to a reporter's question as he flies aboard Air Force One from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, to West Palm Beach, Florida, February 6, 2026
US / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

By casting himself as Supreme Pontiff, Donald Trump summoned the ghosts of the church’s most depraved eras, says STEPHEN ARNELL


 

Voices of Scotland / 10 February 2026
10 February 2026

As assaults on transport staff rise and the Scottish Parliament heads for dissolution, promised legislation to protect rail workers has yet to materialise, says ANN HENDERSON

Richard Burgon MP
Features / 8 February 2026
8 February 2026

RICHARD BURGON MP speaks to Ben Chacko about the Labour right’s complicity in the Mandelson scandal and the need for a total break with Starmerism if the party is to defeat Reform

Fidel Castro Smirnov
Features / 8 February 2026
8 February 2026

In the centenary year of Fidel Castro, Cuba faces ferocious aggression from the United States — but we will not kneel, vows FIDEL CASTRO SMIRNOV

Chris Williamson
Opinion / 8 February 2026
8 February 2026

This by-election could plausibly see both Reform and Labour defeated — but splitting the left insurgent vote would put that at risk, argues CHRIS WILLIAMSON