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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner as they leave after attending the annual Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration at Westminster Abbey, in London, March 10, 2025
Unite Policy Conference 2025 / 11 July 2025
11 July 2025

‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says

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
Politics / 12 July 2025
12 July 2025

It would be great to have a better option to vote for in elections, but a coalition of proven working-class organisations built from decades of real struggle offers stronger foundations than patched-together parliamentarianism, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS

cuts and war
Features / 12 July 2025
12 July 2025

The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP

WAY FORWARD: People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London on June 7 2025
Politics / 11 July 2025
11 July 2025

RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society

Majority members out campaigning in Newcastle [Pic: Majority]
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 / 12 July 2025
12 July 2025

JAMIE DRISCOLL explains how his group, Majority, plans to empower working people to empower themselves

MAKE SHOP WORK SAFE: (left) Labour’s shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and deputy leader Angela Rayner visit Sainsbury’s in Yarm, Teesdale. Labour annonced a five-point plan to ‘breathe new life into high streets which includes reforming business rates and tougher laws on shoplifting, April 2024
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 / 12 July 2025
12 July 2025

Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street

(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the launch of the Government's 10-year health plan during a visit to the Sir Ludwig Guttman Health & Wellbeing Centre in east London, July 3, 2025
Unite Conference 2025 / 8 July 2025
8 July 2025

The electorate see no evidence of the government’s promises of change, and the good jobs and decent pay that people are crying out for. Bold action is needed right now, warns SHARON GRAHAM

President Donald Trump, center, speaks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, left, during a group photo of NATO heads of state and government at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 25, 2025
War Economy / 8 July 2025
8 July 2025

In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a reception for public sector workers, at 10 Downing Street, London, July 1, 2025
Politics / 3 July 2025
3 July 2025

Starmer struggles to save leadership amid polling calamity