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With speculation growing about a Labour leadership contest in 2026, only a decisive break with the current direction – on the economy, foreign policy and migrants – can avert disaster and offer a credible alternative, writes DIANE ABBOTT
‘They’ve got the money but we’ve got the power’
CHRIS WILLIAMSON talks to Ben Cowles about neoliberalism and its effects in Latin America
Repression against left-wing, anti-imperialist and Palestine solidarity structures in Germany is increasingly aimed at undermining their economic means of existence, says LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
Decades of centre-left accommodation and deepening inequality have opened the door to a hard-right restoration — posing stark challenges for the left, argues FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
Despite systemic racism and far-right hostility, Britain’s migrant and black communities continue to contribute, inspire, and resist. Through education, art, and intergenerational solidarity, the next generation can help shape a future rooted in justice, understanding, and hope, says ZITA HOLBOURNE
JULIA BARD looks at the persistence of anti-semitism on the political right – and its troubling emergence on parts of the left, too
From the mainstreaming of far-right ideas to Europe’s looming conflicts, 2025 has been a year of sharp warnings. The coming year demands decisive action before these crises escalate, writes ANDREW MURRAY
What is there left to say about austerity? I can barely conjure up the energy to write about it. The hideousness of stripping vital funding away from everything a society needs to function is as self-evident as Boris Johnson’s narcissism.
It seems I’m not alone in feeling this way. Even the Tories don't talk about it anymore. Nor do they even try to justify it with perverse economic arguments and backwards logic. Instead, austerity has this Voldemort-like quality to it whereby the Tories dare not speak its name — but they still enact its policies.
“The thing that underpins austerity is the Tories’ obsession with neoliberalism,” says Labour’s MP for Derby North Chris Williamson.
Luckily there are a growing number of people like Williamson within the Labour Party who are willing and able to act upon the burning indignation that seven years of Tory rule has set alight within them.
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