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Mish Rahman. Photo: Tom Oldham
Features / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025

MISH RAHMAN introduces the platform of a new organisation within Your Party, which will campaign for the highest level of democracy, accountability and participation, having learned from the mistakes of Labour in the 2015-19 era

A PROMISE RENEGED ON: Let Us Beat Swords Into Plowshares bronze sculpture by Soviet artist Evgeny Vuchetich which encapsules the UN charter. It was presented to the UN in December 1959 by the government of the USSR, it stands in the North Garden of UN HQ in New York Pic: Rodsan18/CC
Features / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025

The colonial mindset behind the governance of the UN is the reason for its inertia when it comes to conflict resolution, argues ROGER McKENZIE – but can China’s Global Governance Initiative point in a new direction of global equality?

COST CONTROL MODE: Health Secretary Wes Streeting during a visit to NHS National Operations Centre in London on July 25 2025
Features / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025

Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY: The British delegation at the Vietnam Fatherland Front headquarters in Hanoi
Features / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025

KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride

DECISIVE RESPONSE: Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) activists block the way of the Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march on Whitehall in central London on September 13 2025.
Eyes Left / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025

ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand 

Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Features / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025

LOTTE COLLETT welcomes the arrival of a new party for the left, a vehicle for councils to finally fight for progressive policies on housing, green spaces and public facilities, rather than administering cuts and misery from central government 

CHAOS: Flames come out from the residence of Nepal President Ram Chandra Poudel after it was set on fire by protesters during a protest against a social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Tuesday September 9
Features / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025

Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA

Pic: Official Photo by Simon Liu/Office of the President/Creative Commons
Features / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025

The US is desperate to stop Honduras’s process of social and democratic change, writes TIM YOUNG

People taking part in a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in central London. Picture date: Saturday September 13, 2025
Voices of Scotland / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025

Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba

Argentina's President Javier Milei (centre) talks after legislative provincial election polls closed in La Plata, Argentina, September 7, 2025
Features / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025

Argentina's president vowed to accelerate reforms after the opposition beat his party in a province holding 40% of the population. Meanwhile, the $56 billion debt threatening a financial crisis casts a shadow over his rule, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG

Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, during a meeting with English regional mayors, at No 10 Downing Street in Westminster, central London, July 9, 2024
Features / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025

Lucy Powell may not exactly be the left’s choice, but her bid for the deputy leadership is certainly not the Labour right’s choice — and if she wins, that could mean the ascendancy of Andy Burnham and the end of Keir Starmer, writes VINCE MILLS

People taking part in a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in central London. Picture date: Saturday September 13, 2025
Features / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025

But the beneath the racism and misogyny of the far right lies a shared grievance with the left — Starmer’s complete betrayal of working people, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER