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Train drivers from the Aslef union on the picket line at Euston station in London, April 5, 2024
Features / 19 July 2025
19 July 2025

As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, July 16, 2025
Labour Party / 16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025
Politics / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media as he visits the Netherlands marines training base, as part of the UK-Netherland Joint Amphibious Force in Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 24, 2025, on the sidelines of the NATO summit
Nato / 24 June 2025
24 June 2025
FRAWNED UPON: An estimated 100,000 people gathered for a mass Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally at the end of a protest march through London on October 22 1983
Features / 4 June 2025
4 June 2025

JOHN ELLISON looks back at Labour’s opportunistic tendency, when in office, to veer to the right on policy as well as ideological worldview

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference in Westminster, London, May 27, 2025
Editorial / 27 May 2025
27 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, to Downing Street, London, ahead of a bilateral meeting, May 21, 2025
Features / 27 May 2025
27 May 2025

STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks with the media at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, May 15, 2025
Economy / 22 May 2025
22 May 2025
TREACHERY FORGOTTEN: John Woodcock, seen here in 2015, betrayed Labour under Corbyn. Now that the right is back in charge, he is welcome to schmooze Labour MPs for Ramsay Healthcare
Features / 23 May 2025
23 May 2025

SOLOMON HUGHES details how the firm has quickly moved on to buttering-up Labour MPs after the fall of the Tories so it can continue to ‘win both ways’ collecting public and private cash by undermining the NHS

Displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Younis, Gaza, amid the ongoing Israeli military offensive in the area, May 19, 2025
Gaza / 20 May 2025
20 May 2025

MPs across the Commons denounce Labour's lack of action on Gaza

(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood leaving number 10 Downing Street, London, after a Cabinet meeting, May 20, 2025
Editorial / 20 May 2025
20 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks at a reception for UK and EU businesses in Downing Street, London, May 19, 2025
EU / 20 May 2025
20 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves the end of a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
Features / 19 May 2025
19 May 2025

ALAN SIMPSON warns that Starmer’s triangulation strategy will fail just as New Labour’s did, with each rightward move by Labour pushing Tories further right

Cartoon: Lewis
Features / 17 May 2025
17 May 2025

DIANE ABBOTT MP warns Starmer’s newly declared war on foreigners and scroungers won’t fix housing or services — only class struggle against austerity can do that, and defeat Farage in the process

People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022
Britain / 15 May 2025
15 May 2025

People's Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks with the media at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, following the announcement from the Office for National Statistics that the UK economy grew by 0.7% between January and March, May 15, 2025
Editorial: / 15 May 2025
15 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during the concert celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, held at the historic Horse Guards Parade in central London, May 8, 2025
POA Conference 2025 / 13 May 2025
13 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
Eyes Left / 14 May 2025
14 May 2025

Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
Britain / 12 May 2025
12 May 2025

Unions and campaigners condemn Prime Minister's ‘far-right’ rhetoric and new immigration policies

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar giving a speech at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall in Glasgow, to mark one year to go to the next Holyrood election on May 7 2026. Picture date: Wednesday May 7, 2025
Voices of Scotland / 13 May 2025
13 May 2025

Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER

First Minister and Labour leader in Wales, Baroness Eluned Morgan, delivers a keynote speech marking one year to the 2026 Senedd election, at the Norwegian Church in Cardiff, May 6, 2025
Britain / 6 May 2025
6 May 2025
The vote count on May 1 at Grimsby Town Hall, Lincolnshire, for the Greater Lincolnshire Mayor election
Features / 6 May 2025
6 May 2025

With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to members of staff during a visit to Leonardo, a defence contractor in Luton, to launch UAS StormShroud into operational service, May 2, 2025
Features / 4 May 2025
4 May 2025

JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course

Platform working
Features / 5 May 2025
5 May 2025

TONY BURKE says an International Labour Conference next month will try for a new convention to protect often super-exploited workers providing services such as ride-hailing (taxis) such as Uber as well as fast food and package delivery

Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair, March 2023
Climate / 30 April 2025
30 April 2025
A view of the Grangemouth petrochemical plant in Grangemouth, September 12, 2024
Britain / 29 April 2025
29 April 2025
(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, P
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
COSY CLUB: Akshata Murty has been appointed a trustee of the
Features / 11 April 2025
11 April 2025
Why is the Labour government so addicted to giving government jobs to Tories when it spent so long trying to oust them? In the hope the favour is returned the next time the Tories return to power, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
(left to right) Health Secretary Wes Streeting, Dr James Mar
Britain / 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
Labour warned that workers expect better as anger mounts over welfare cuts and public-sector pay
Former Labour Party leader and now Independent MP Jeremy Cor
Britain / 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of bilateral talks with Pr
Britain / 8 April 2025
8 April 2025
Palestinians wait to get donated food at a distribution cent
Editorial: / 8 April 2025
8 April 2025
MONEY TALKS: A general view of City workers on Bank Street a
Full Marx / 6 April 2025
6 April 2025
Labour’s fiscal policy is already in trouble. But simply printing money is not a solution, says the Marx Memorial Library and Workers School
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce ne
Britain / 3 April 2025
3 April 2025
Campaigners urge government to stop surrendering our rights and protections to appease the US President
Britain / 3 April 2025
3 April 2025
Riders and hounds during the Tedworth Hunt's Boxing Day meet
Britain / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
TURNING POINT: The anti-cuts plan put forward by Tony Benn (
Features / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
UTTER REJECTION: A contingent od disabled protesters move to
Features / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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
DON’T BLAME CLAIMANTS: People take part in a protest outsi
Features / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
TORY 2015/LABOUR 2025 SPOT THE DIFFERENCE: (Above) Workers a
Features / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
DR DYLAN MURPHY asks why Labour is continuing the Tory war on the disabled, when viable alternatives have been spelt out in detail
ALWAYS MONEY FOR WARFARE, NEVER FOR WELFARE: US President Do
Features / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
In advance of the Socialism or Barbarism day school on March 29, Arise Festival’s SAM BROWSE writes on why we must oppose the cuts to welfare and the drive to war
Voices of Scotland / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
While VINCE MILLS laments the resignation of Neil Findlay from Scottish Labour, he explains why he won’t be joining him outside the party in the ongoing struggle for a socialist future
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking at a press conference w
Features / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS agitates for British youth to engage in the fight for peace and the transfer of investment from armament to social programmes
PUTTING A GOOD FACE ON IT: Liz Kendall
Features / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
With young people, the disabled and the elderly in Labour’s sights as ‘easy targets’ for cuts, the labour movement must remember it’s in the vital interests of us all to defend the groups being picked off, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally o
Editorial: / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
BLUE’S WHO? Maurice Glasman (left), who founded Blue Labou
Features / 21 March 2025
21 March 2025
A new book shows the group’s close links to Labour Together, which hoodwinked the party membership into voting for Starmer on fake left promises. SOLOMON HUGHES attempts to get some answers about what ‘Blue Labour’ actually stands for
Foreign Secretary David Lammy leaving Downing Street, London
Britain / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is clapped by the
Britain / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
WE WANT TO WORK: Disability activists protest previous welfa
Features / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
By making Personal Independence Payments harder to access, Labour is creating another barrier for those already struggling with soaring care costs, workplace discrimination and prejudiced employers, argues RUTH HUNT
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking to the media in Downing
Britain / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
Starmer under pressure over cruel plan to slash welfare budget
Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Prime Minister of Canada Ma
Eyes Left / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
With Labour abandoning its base through welfare cuts and warmongering, a genuine progressive alternative is urgently needed but must avoid any whiff of Trump infatuation syndrome and national populism, argues ANDREW MURRAY
LABOUR PRINCIPLES: I didn’t join the Labour Party to cut w
Features / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
The decision to cut billions from support for vulnerable people while refusing to tax the wealthy shows how far our party has drifted from its core purpose, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Features / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
Starmer’s slash-and-burn approach to disability benefits represents a fundamental break with Labour’s founding mission to challenge the idle rich rather than punish the vulnerable poor, argues KEITH FLETT
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall arrives in Downing S
Britain / 11 March 2025
11 March 2025
SPEAKING OUT: PCS president Fran Heathcote
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
As the government ploughs ahead with £3 billion in welfare cuts, arbitrary office-return mandates, and below-inflation pay rises, women will bear the brunt through deepening poverty and increased caring burdens, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
DRAWING A LINE: Anneliese Dodds, who resigned as development
Eyes Left / 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
Starmer’s unseemly rush to the right is part of a historical pattern when Labour is in power, argues ANDREW MURRAY, but there’s no reason why politics in general should follow this trajectory
Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury, January 11, 2025
Britain / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech duri
Britain / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
MP Mike Amesbury (left) outside Chester Ellesmere Port and N
Britain / 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking at a press conference w
Features / 22 February 2025
22 February 2025
Dangerous and delusional military posturing on the world stage does not serve the interests of the public among the European powers, nor the people of Ukraine, writes DIANE ABBOTT
POURING FROM AN EMPTY CUP: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwa
Features / 22 February 2025
22 February 2025
VINCE MILLS looks at how UK Labour’s backpedalling on policy has left Scottish Labour with nothing to offer its own electorate
Rachel Reeves and her Treasury team prepare to leave 11 Down
Features / 22 February 2025
22 February 2025
In his first of a new monthly economics column MICHAEL BURKE argues that public-sector investment is more effective, more productive than private-sector investment
‘TAKING THE MICKEY’: Secretary of State for Work and Pen
Features / 16 February 2025
16 February 2025
Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Editorial / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
MILLSTONE: Parts of the Labour Party see Nigel Farage’s Re
Features / 8 February 2025
8 February 2025
You only have to look at the dire polling of Labour’s sister parties in Europe to see that aping the hard right on migration leads to spectacularly bad results, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally on
Editorial: / 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
Two children wait to get water next to a line of empty jerry
Britain / 6 February 2025
6 February 2025
Starmer under pressure from all sides to condemn Trump’s plan to drive Palestinians out of Gaza
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Editorial: / 6 February 2025
6 February 2025
Zarah Sultana MP speaks during a strike rally in Trafalgar S
Britain / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
Labour continues suspension of Apsana Begum, Zarah Sultana and John McDonnell
HARMFUL RHETORIC: Keir Starmer and Liz Kendall
Features / 3 February 2025
3 February 2025
Far from addressing the causes of ill-health and disability, Starmer, Reeves and Kendall are committed to unleashing more misery for disabled people, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International A
Editorial: / 2 February 2025
2 February 2025
Former Labour Party leader and now independent MP Jeremy Cor
Britain / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Editorial: / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
The coffin of Lord John Prescott arrives at Hull Minster, Ki
Britain / 30 January 2025
30 January 2025
Activists from Fossil Free London and Green New Deal Rising
Britain / 29 January 2025
29 January 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Britain / 29 January 2025
29 January 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Britain / 28 January 2025
28 January 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Britain / 27 January 2025
27 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Labour Part
Editorial: / 24 January 2025
24 January 2025
Features / 23 January 2025
23 January 2025
Britain’s first woman Chancellor delivers the same old fudge, as Labour’s commitment to economic orthodoxy, seen throughout its history, always betrays working people, writes KEITH FLETT
Police officers watch as people take part in a national marc
Editorial: / 21 January 2025
21 January 2025
WORKERS’ RIGHTS: Labour MP for Leeds East Richard Burgon o
Features / 20 January 2025
20 January 2025
RICHARD BURGON MP says the government should use the Employment Rights Bill to reverse a shameful Tory decision on discrimination
Tulip Siddiq MP outside 10 Downing Street, central London, m
Britain / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, September 23, 202
Editorial: / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederati
Features / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
Instead of responding to changed circumstances by adjusting policy, Reeves is using fiscal ‘rules’ as an excuse to force government departments to make even deeper cuts than she had already flagged, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
YESTERDAY’S HOPE: Crowds outside the 2017 leaders debate
Features / 6 January 2025
6 January 2025
Every few years, it seems like the ‘right time’ to build a new left party — but what are the right conditions, asks socialist historian KEITH FLETT, looking back at the last two centuries and the insights of Ralph Miliband and EP Thompson
Tesla and SpaceX's CEO Elon Musk during the opening plenary
Editorial: / 5 January 2025
5 January 2025
PLUMMETING IN
THE POLLS: Keir
Starmer’s popularity
ratings
3 January 2025
3 January 2025
Centrist governments around the world face rejection by their electorates as neoliberalism fails to deliver the public prosperity it never promised – and the same fate awaits Labour unless it starts to deliver for those struggling to survive, says ALAN SIMPSON
Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell speaking during t
Britain / 22 December 2024
22 December 2024
King Charles III reading the King's Speech in the House of L
Britain / 22 December 2024
22 December 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his meeting with the Sult
Editorial: / 22 December 2024
22 December 2024
An elderly lady sitting at home in Liverpool with her electr
Britain / 20 December 2024
20 December 2024
Peter Mandelson at St Mary the Virgin church in Primrose Hil
Britain / 20 December 2024
20 December 2024
Alan Milburn speaks at the first national conference of the
Features / 20 December 2024
20 December 2024
Behind a facade of flimsy restrictions, the man who was Tony Blair’s privatisation champion is back in an advisory role, despite the fact he already works for firms that will profit from the selling off of the NHS, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Waspi campaigners at Holyrood
Britain / 19 December 2024
19 December 2024
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners s
Editorial: / 18 December 2024
18 December 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a press conference on mig
Editorial: / 17 December 2024
17 December 2024
RAGE: Locals confront police 
guarding the Holiday Inn 
Expr
Features / 17 December 2024
17 December 2024
While Starmer courts BlackRock and backs genocide, leading to despair and historically low voter turnout, the vultures of the new populist right circle Britain’s crumbling institutions, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
MPs show support for an immediate arms embargo outside parli
Britain / 16 December 2024
16 December 2024
MPs call for end to genocide complicity in debate over massive petition
Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech in Buckinghamshir
Britain / 5 December 2024
5 December 2024
CAUGHT OUT AGAIN: 
The MP for Birmingham 
Yardley can’t re
Features / 4 December 2024
4 December 2024
Despite promises to clean up her act after previous violations, Home Office minister waited five months to declare a luxury Chelsea flower show dinner with Lloyds Bank, as Labour’s love of freebies continues, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
CORPORATE OVERLORDS: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves host an
Features / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
The left must call out the fact that BlackRock and private billionaires have merged with the state apparatus as our leaders abandon any pretence of there being a ‘free market’ for direct and overt corporate control, writes JOE GILL
WELFARE AUSTERITY: (L to R) Secretary of State for Work and
Features / 30 November 2024
30 November 2024
DIANE ABBOTT MP condemns the government’s vicious attack on benefits that callously denies the pandemic’s impact on the working class while pushing vulnerable people into unsuitable work through punitive measures
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a press conference on mig
Editorial: / 29 November 2024
29 November 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech during a visit to
Editorial: / 28 November 2024
28 November 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Excheq
Britain / 27 November 2024
27 November 2024
NEW FOR OLD? Labour leader Tony Blair (second right), with (
Features / 27 November 2024
27 November 2024
The fawning tributes from the Establishment have painted Prescott as a fighter for Old Labour leftism and treated his background and accent as unique eccentricities — two utterly bogus postulations, writes STEVE PARRY
ARCHITECTS OF SLAUGHTER : Jonathan Powell (right)and Alastai
Features / 23 November 2024
23 November 2024
The British press has welcomed Keir Starmer’s new National Security Adviser without any mention of his deep, central involvement in the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan — but history remembers, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Deputy prime minister John Prescott at the opening of the Ba
Britain / 21 November 2024
21 November 2024
UNFAIRLY TARGETED: A support group protests before the publi
Features / 19 November 2024
19 November 2024
The Stafford Hospital scandal’s false mortality statistics led to devastating service cuts despite evidence disproving the whole debacle, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning of similar threats under Labour’s new plans for league tables
Members of the House of Lords gather in the chamber ahead of
Britain / 13 November 2024
13 November 2024
The Houses of Parliament in London
Britain / 12 November 2024
12 November 2024

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner addresses the Local Gov
Britain / 8 November 2024
8 November 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer giving a speech during an event
Britain / 6 November 2024
6 November 2024
LOUD AND CLEAR: A group of mothers on a five-day hunger stri
Features / 25 October 2024
25 October 2024
The Labour government must rescind the two-child benefit cap or risk irreparable damage to its legacy, writes TOMMY KANE
Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks to the media on board his
Editorial: / 20 October 2024
20 October 2024
A HEAD SCRATCHER? Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
Features / 18 October 2024
18 October 2024
Why is Labour so excited about unproven and untested schemes to burn fossil fuels while radically reducing CO₂ emissions? Just follow BP, Drax and Hynet’s money, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London
Editorial: / 16 October 2024
16 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Britain / 16 October 2024
16 October 2024
LABOUR PAINS: Keir Starmer’s government has inflicted poli
Features / 14 October 2024
14 October 2024
A Tory-lite Labour Party is clearly unpopular with the electorate who are desperate to see actual improvement to Britain’s decimated public services, writes JOE GILL
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner speaking at the Labour P
Britain / 10 October 2024
10 October 2024
British one pound coins
Britain / 9 October 2024
9 October 2024
People outside Southwark Crown Court, south London, in suppo
Britain / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech duri
Britain / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks during the
Editorial: / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves during an 'in con
7 October 2024
7 October 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer congratulates Chancellor of the
Editorial: / 4 October 2024
4 October 2024
Commuters and travellers at Edinburgh's Waverley Station
Britain / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
LABOUR GRANDEE: Sidney Webb
History / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
The words composed by Sidney Webb: ‘To organise and maintain in Parliament and in the country a Political Labour Party’ were a crucial landmark in Labour’s journey to becoming a membership-based electoral presence, writes KEITH FLETT
MP Rosie Duffield, who has resigned the Labour whip, accusin
Britain / 29 September 2024
29 September 2024
PRINCIPLED: General secretary of the Unite union Sharon Grah
Aw That / 28 September 2024
28 September 2024
The Red Flag still flies from the Clyde to the Mersey, and whatever the current leaders of the Labour Party say or do, power rests with us, the working class, and our ability to say no to the corruption of the rich, writes MATT KERR
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper delivers her speech during the
Britain / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
OUTRAGE AND SOLIDARITY: Supportersof Faiza Shaheen gather to
Features / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
After his organisation helped elect four independent MPs, ABUBAKR NANABAWA talks to Andrew Murray about how Muslim Vote, although sparked by the war on Gaza, has a working-class agenda that reaches far beyond Muslims
WRONG ANSWERS : Lord Darzi’s ideas will lead to services l
Features / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
CLAUDIA WEBBE warns that Starmer’s government is poised to accelerate harmful ‘integrated care’ policies, ignoring the reality that it is the decades of cuts and closures that have devastated public healthcare
Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a press conference at the
Features / 23 September 2024
23 September 2024
The task of the anti-war movement is to prevent Labour taking us deeper into the abyss of war – and it’s a task that’s more urgent than ever, says LINDSEY GERMAN of Stop the War
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his speech and press conf
Features / 11 September 2024
11 September 2024
As Western liberal democracies crack down on journalists and activists, CLAUDIA WEBBE urges resistance against the Labour government’s part in this slide towards Saudi-style repression
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Editorial: / 10 September 2024
10 September 2024
An elderly woman holding pound coins in her hands, in Poole,
Britain / 10 September 2024
10 September 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch p
Britain / 9 September 2024
9 September 2024
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and Deputy Prime Minister
Editorial: / 9 September 2024
9 September 2024
TUC Congress 2024 / 7 September 2024
7 September 2024
There is no stronger economy without the stronger wages that provide extra disposable income, which is why workers – including civil servants – must have their pay boosted in real terms, along with restored union rights and insourcing, says FRAN HEATHCOTE
ENERGY AND ACTIVISM: Jamie Driscoll (third from right) joins
Features / 7 September 2024
7 September 2024
Former North of Tyne mayor JAMIE DRISCOLL outlines his vision for a new progressive movement, highlighting the need for infrastructure and skills to turn popular policies into electoral success
(left-right) Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner,
Britain / 6 September 2024
6 September 2024
Calls from TUC and GTFU for industrial strategy on eve of workers' parliament
Charles Windsor reads the King's Speech in the House of Lord
Britain / 5 September 2024
5 September 2024
The scene following a fire in a tower block in Catford, sout
Britain / 5 September 2024
5 September 2024
Government fails to announce timeline on fixing unsafe structures in wake of Grenfell report
TREASURY MIND: Rachel Reeves
Features / 5 September 2024
5 September 2024
The Chancellor is rehashing discredited Victorian economics, showing the party has learned nothing from a century of failed Gladstonian economics, ignoring Keynes and betraying workers, writes KEITH FLETT
General Secretary David Evans makes a speech at the Labour P
Britain / 3 September 2024
3 September 2024
DISQUIETING IMPLICATIONS: Labour leader Keir Starmer and the
Features / 30 August 2024
30 August 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES delves into a consultancy that claims it 'grew out of the labour movement'
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his speech and press conf
Britain / 29 August 2024
29 August 2024
The Palace of Westminster, which contains the House of Commo
Editorial: / 29 August 2024
29 August 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer speaks to supporters at a watch p
Britain / 22 August 2024
22 August 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a press con
Editorial: / 22 August 2024
22 August 2024
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan on the picket line at Eu
Editorial: / 20 August 2024
20 August 2024
James Harrison, director of the Institute of Employment Righ
Features / 10 August 2024
10 August 2024
Newly appointed director JAMES HARRISON sets out his vision for the Institute of Employment Rights, balancing healthy scepticism of Labour’s promises with proactive efforts to improve and expand workers’ rights
STUNNING: Jeremy Deller’s recreation of The Battle of Orgr
Opinion / 9 August 2024
9 August 2024
VANESSA CORBY asks what will the arts do for everyday working people?
COLD WAR MENTALITY: David Lammy arrives for the Association
Features / 5 August 2024
5 August 2024
In the final part of his series on Labour’s possible foreign policy in government, KENNY COYLE warns that the party’s so-called ‘progressive realism’ could see increasing aggression towards China, with added uncertainty over a potential second Trump presidency
QUO VADIS: Foreign Secretary David Lammy leaving Downing Str
Features / 2 August 2024
2 August 2024
KENNY COYLE takes a look at David Lammy’s emerging foreign policy, dubbed ‘progressive realism,’ which supposedly draws inspiration from Ernest Bevin and Robin Cook
A RADICAL POSE: Neil Kinnock, then Labour Party leader, addr
Features / 2 August 2024
2 August 2024
Leaving after 50 years in the Labour Party, national secretary of Women Against Pit Closures HEATHER WOOD says Reeves’ and Starmer’s winter fuel allowance cuts are a red line crossed — and calls for widespread union resistance
Martin Agricola Musica Instrumentalis Deudsch 1532
Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 26 July 2024
26 July 2024
Noting Labour’s bad start and the rise of the far right, the bard readies the crumhorn of righteous anger for battle from Southwick to central Edinburgh
Vic Turner (left) being escorted into Pentonville Prison by
Features / 26 July 2024
26 July 2024
ROGER SUTTON reflects on the mass action that freed imprisoned dockers on this day in 1972, which is to be commemorated later this year in an event drawing parallels with the struggles of workers today
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Britain / 24 July 2024
24 July 2024
Union leaders condemn the Prime Minister’s ‘disgraceful’ decision
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2024
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2024 / 21 July 2024
21 July 2024
Caroline Ffiske of Women Uniting, Heather Binning from the W
Features / 17 July 2024
17 July 2024
LYNNE WALSH reports on discussions among feminist campaigners and a recent Swansea University event
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during an interview at th
Britain / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Tony Blair speaking at the Tony Blair Institute for Global C
Britain / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Then shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth speaking at
Britain / 5 July 2024
5 July 2024
Features / 5 July 2024
5 July 2024
With less than 34 per cent of votes cast on a turnout of just 60 per cent, no party has got so much for so little. This wasn’t so much a ‘Labour landslide’ as Tory collapse, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Features / 4 July 2024
4 July 2024
While workers must organise to push Starmer beyond his timid manifesto pledges, the scrapping of anti-strike laws and restoration of public services promised means we must vote Labour, argues MATT WRACK
Features / 4 July 2024
4 July 2024
Former party chair IAN LAVERY urges voters who may be tempted to lend their support to alternative left candidates to stick with Labour to smash the main enemy of our class as completely as possible
Features / 4 July 2024
4 July 2024
Labour’s refusal to restore council funding is a betrayal of the vulnerable, and particularly of Send children and young people, says independent candidate CLAUDIA WEBBE
A ballot box is emptied during the count for the Blackpool S
Editorial: / 2 July 2024
2 July 2024
Britain / 27 June 2024
27 June 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer holds a copy of his partyâ€
Eyes Left / 18 June 2024
18 June 2024
The Labour leader’s threadbare platform exposes the bankruptcy of liberal orthodoxy, not just here in Britain but as an era that is ending, with the far right waiting in the wings, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Reform UK chairman Richard Tice (left) and party leader Nige
Britain / 17 June 2024
17 June 2024
UNITE TO FIGHT THE CUTS: Unions and protesters on the End Au
Features / 17 June 2024
17 June 2024
As council funding dwindles, leaving the most vulnerable at risk, unions and community groups must unite to challenge Labour’s tepid response with calls for proper funding paid for by proper taxes, writes DAVID RATCHFORD
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer making a speech in Grays, E
Editorial: / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
Eyes Left / 12 June 2024
12 June 2024
Starmer’s Labour is dog-whistling so loud it’s deafening, safe in the knowledge the minority communities being slighted by these affronts largely have nowhere else to turn. Remember these betrayals, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer making a speech in Grays, E
GMB Conference 2024 / 10 June 2024
10 June 2024
HOLLOW: Keir Starmer
Features / 7 June 2024
7 June 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES explains the logic behind the ‘Ming vase strategy’ that’s firing up the thinking of Starmer and his gang of centrists
Features / 7 June 2024
7 June 2024
Breaking the duopoly of British politics is not easy, but it is essential as working people are crying out for change, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (second right) has his pi
Britain / 6 June 2024
6 June 2024
An oil platform standing amongst other rigs that have been l
Britain / 5 June 2024
5 June 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer at the launch of Scottish Labour'
Britain / 3 June 2024
3 June 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech to suppor
Editorial: / 29 May 2024
29 May 2024
Jeremy Corbyn joins a demonstration in Parliament Square, Lo
Britain / 28 May 2024
28 May 2024
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech during a v
Britain / 28 May 2024
28 May 2024
Diane Abbott addressing the People's Assembly Britain is Bro
Britain / 28 May 2024
28 May 2024
Diane Abbott addressing the People's Assembly Britain is Bro
Britain / 26 May 2024
26 May 2024
Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a protest organised by the Rail,
Britain / 20 May 2024
20 May 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during his visit to
Britain / 16 May 2024
16 May 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during his visit to
Editorial: / 16 May 2024
16 May 2024
(left to right) Tracy Brabin Mayor of West Yorkshire, Labour
Britain / 15 May 2024
15 May 2024
Kate Osamor speaks during the second day of the Labour Party
Britain / 8 May 2024
8 May 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer with former Conservative MP Natal
Britain / 8 May 2024
8 May 2024
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer (right) celebrates with new
Editorial: / 5 May 2024
5 May 2024
ALL SMILES: The local elections are an indicator of a likely
Features / 4 May 2024
4 May 2024
It now looks even more certain that Labour will sweep to power at the next general election — so providing a real, radical alternative to Tory policies must become a priority, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
A ballot box arrives during the count for the Blackpool Sout
Britain / 3 May 2024
3 May 2024