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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025
War & Austerity / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025

LIZ PAYNE condemns how Labour backs war in Gaza and Ukraine, and massive funding for Trident’s nuclear bombs, when billions are needed just to restore public services

Palestinians ride on a truck loaded with food and humanitarian aid from the World Food Programme, after it arrived in the northern Gaza Strip en route to Gaza City, June 16, 2025
Solidarity / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025

MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS explains how Britain’s largest union is putting pressure on the British government to recognise the Palestinian state and end its complicity with Israel’s murderous actions

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to the Castlehaven Horticulture hub in Camden, north-west London, June 9, 2025
Economy / 10 June 2025
10 June 2025

Britain needs ‘joined-up industrial strategy and ambitious public investment’ to end the cost of living crisis, unions says

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer takes part in a panel discussion with Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, during his visit to the London Tech Week conference at London's Olympia, where he announced the TechFirst programme for secondary school pupils to be taught skills in artificial intelligence (AI) as part of a drive to put the technological power ‘into the hands of the next generation,’ June 9, 2025
Eyes Left / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025

We have finally reached the end of Labour’s claim to be the political wing of the labour movement, and the diverse left forces challenging Starmer’s pro-austerity, pro-war government deserve our open support — but what next, asks ANDREW MURRAY

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers a speech during a visit to Mellor Bus in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, to announce a multi-billion-pound boost for city transport in the North and the Midlands, June 4, 2025
Austerity / 9 June 2025
9 June 2025

Let’s mobilise against the cuts and for a clear alternative economic strategy, writes MATT WILLGRESS

(2nd left to right) Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and Davy Russell celebrate during a rally on Castle Street, Hamilton, after he was declared the winner for the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election. The by-election was triggered after the death of SNP minister Christina McKelvie, June 6, 2025
Scotland / 9 June 2025
9 June 2025

Voters are clearly increasingly fed up with the SNP, but Labour can’t just assume that they will reap the benefit – especially with an ascendant Reform UK waiting in the wings, says STEPHEN LOW

A Palestinian woman mourns as she embraces the body of her daughter Mayar Abu Odeh (8), who was killed by an Israeli army strike on Gaza, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, June 4, 2025
Gaza / 5 June 2025
5 June 2025

British Palestinians demand Labour stops enabling Israel’s starvation of their families in Gaza