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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
Clothing showing an image of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Eyes Left / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
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
A retiree rallies calling for higher pensions and against au
Features / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
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
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to Staffordshire
Britain / 30 March 2025
30 March 2025
Campaigns hit out as Cooper tub thumps on migrant family life with public threat to human rights act
FACING THE RIGHT:
Anti-racist protesters
in Walthamstow, 202
Features / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
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
A far-right protest in Belfast city centre an anti-racism â€
Britain / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
FAR-RIGHT LEADERS: (L-R) Italy’s Giorgia Melon, Germany’
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
There’s no room for feminists to be complacent about the growth of extremism and misogyny worldwide, warns HAILEY MAXWELL
Britain / 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
A man stands in front of the logo at the far-right AfD party
Features / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
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
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Friedrich Merz (centre) leader of the Christian Democratic U
World / 24 February 2025
24 February 2025
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-rigt Alternative for Germ
Editorial: / 24 February 2025
24 February 2025
Merseyside Fire & Rescue service help repair a broken window
Britain / 19 February 2025
19 February 2025
Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) carrying cut outs
World / 9 February 2025
9 February 2025
Fascist goons throw objects towards police officer at the Ho
Eyes Left / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
ANDREW MURRAY reviews studies on the motivations of last August's rioters and dwindling support for 'democracy' in its modern Western incarnation
Stand Up to Racism marches in London
Britain / 2 February 2025
2 February 2025
Thousands take to streets to protest against far right
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Features / 1 February 2025
1 February 2025
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
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
Campaigners express concerns about the of safety black and minority ethnic communities in London ahead of far-right march
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Editorial: / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
Moronic billionaire Elon Musk is shown during a live video l
Features / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
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
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Features / 30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Donald Trump’s inauguration has emboldened fascists in Britain, warns SABBY DHALU 
People take part in a protest organised by Stand Up to Racis
Britain / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
US President Donald Trump salutes as Melania Trump (third ri
World / 20 January 2025
20 January 2025
Activists vow to oppose Trumpism by fighting for ‘social and environmental justice, working-class organisation and universal human and civil rights’