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Sir Oswald Mosley, ex leader of the British Union of Fascists, surrounded by police after speaking in public for the first time since the war at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon, November 1947
History / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025

GUTO DAVIES commemorates the 89th anniversary of the mass clash where thousands of Rhondda locals and anti-fascist activists made sure ‘not even one Welsh sheep would hear the Mosley message’ and rioted against the BUF rally

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London
Features / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets

Nazi soldiers separate Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwi
Fascism / 10 May 2025
10 May 2025

The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN

Barricade in Elmegade in Nørrebro in Copenhagen during the popular strike in 1944
WWII / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025

The Morning Star's Danish sister paper ARBEJDEREN on when the people of Copenhagen triumphed over the occupying forces

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaking during a campaign event at Stafford Showground, Stafford, whilst campaigning for this week's local elections, April 30, 2025
Politics / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025

Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT

Protesters outside Liverpool Crown Court where Axel Rudakubana, 18, is charged with three counts of murder, 10 attempted murders and possession of a knife, after a stabbing attack on a Taylor Swift-themed children's holiday club class in Southport, Merseyside on July 29, 2024. Picture date: Monday January 20, 2025
VE Day 2025 / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025

TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today

Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Antifascism / 7 May 2025
7 May 2025

This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH 

A man stands in front of the logo at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025, after the German national election
Far Right / 2 May 2025
2 May 2025

Decision allows Germany’s spooks to use informants and other tools to spy on the far-right party’s activities nationwide

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference in Dover in Kent, whilst on the local election campaign trail, April 24, 2025
Features / 28 April 2025
28 April 2025
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow's George Square, in a counter protest to a far-right rally, September 7, 2024
STUC 2025 / 28 April 2025
28 April 2025

As Reform UK threatens to capitalise on public anger, our Establishment politicians simply refuse to acknowledge their role in creating the very alienation that gives succour to Farage, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
 

Counterdemonstrators in Paisley
Britain / 13 April 2025
13 April 2025
Aw That / 12 April 2025
12 April 2025
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
ANGER GROWS: Protesters demonstrate in Dover against migrant
Features / 10 April 2025
10 April 2025
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT