ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads

After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG

Campaigns hit out as Cooper tub thumps on migrant family life with public threat to human rights act

Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT

There’s no room for feminists to be complacent about the growth of extremism and misogyny worldwide, warns HAILEY MAXWELL

In the recent federal elections the far-right AfD was able to reach sections of the working class on issues over which the left is divided and unable to articulate a coherent position, a situation that is replicated in a number of other European countries, argues NICK WRIGHT

ANDREW MURRAY reviews studies on the motivations of last August's rioters and dwindling support for 'democracy' in its modern Western incarnation

Thousands take to streets to protest against far right

Today’s far-right demo called by ‘Tommy Robinson’ from prison to ‘free the political prisoners’ is a dark sign of today’s politics. We need a class-based fightback now, argues TONY CONWAY

Campaigners express concerns about the of safety black and minority ethnic communities in London ahead of far-right march

LOUISE RAW reports back from the United States on the dystopian future its ruling tycoons have planned for us – and our need to take a stand against the far right in Britain now

Donald Trump’s inauguration has emboldened fascists in Britain, warns SABBY DHALU 

Activists vow to oppose Trumpism by fighting for ‘social and environmental justice, working-class organisation and universal human and civil rights’

With Trump coming back to power, interventions aimed at regime change and a far-right resurgence in the region are heavily on the agenda, writes MATT WILLGRESS, calling on the international left to prepare to act in solidarity