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(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

Green Party Deputy Leader Zack Polanski AM speaking at the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London. Picture date: Saturday June 7, 2025
Opinion / 4 July 2025
4 July 2025

Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY

Re your message in #nujchapel:  If we website looks like shit, no-one is going to take us seriously, or be inclined to subscribe - that's why I think we have to prioritise the way it looks, especially when the site (editorial-wise) is largely working.  When it comes to the issues you mentioned to me the other day (word count, curly quotes, bylines), there are quick and easy work arounds for them (copy and paste text into BBedit, Word, Pages, wordcount.com, etc. Leave curly quotes, bylines, etc to the web de
Democracy / 2 July 2025
2 July 2025

From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT

Mourners attend the funeral of members of Al-Aimawi family who were killed in an Israeli bombardment of Al-Zawaideh, at Al-Aqsa Hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025
British Foreign Policy / 3 July 2025
3 July 2025

Just as the Chilcot inquiry eventually exposed government failings over the Iraq war, a full independent investigation into British complicity in Israeli war crimes has become inevitable — despite official obstruction, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP

Palestine Action activists blockade the entrance to Elbit Systems in Bristol, July 1, 2025
Activism / 1 July 2025
1 July 2025

‘Protests against genocide are not the problem in our society — it is the government’s complicity with genocide’ that is, campaigners say

Generation Rent UK activists
Renters' Rights / 1 July 2025
1 July 2025
An asbestos warning sign, February 8, 2009
Health and Safety / 1 July 2025
1 July 2025
Previously unissued photo dated 28/6/2025 of Bob Vylan crowd surfs during his performance on the West Holts Stage, during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset. The performer led crowds on the festival's West Holts Stage in chants of
Media / 2 July 2025
2 July 2025

Despite declining to show Kneecap’s set, the BBC broadcast Bob Vylan leading a ‘death to the IDF’ chant — and the resulting outrage has only amplified the very message the Establishment wanted silenced, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the British Chambers of Commerce Global Annual Conference at the QEII Centre, London. Picture date: Thursday June 26, 2025
Editorial / 26 June 2025
26 June 2025
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, March 26, 2025
Labour Austerity / 24 June 2025
24 June 2025

Disability charity Sense applauds rebel MPs for ‘pushing back against this unjust policy’

People take part in a demonstration at Trafalgar Square in London in support of Palestine Action,  June 23, 2025
Britain / 23 June 2025
23 June 2025

Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’

Campaigners opposing the assisted dying Bill gather in Parliament Square, central London, ahead of a debate on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in the House of Commons, June 20, 2025
Assisted Dying Bill / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025

Campaigners vow to keep up fight against Assisted Dying Bill as it clears House of Commons

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

Workers protest outside Google London HQ over the
Lobbying / 6 June 2025
6 June 2025

SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how six MPs enjoyed £400-£600 hospitality at Ditchley Park for Google’s ‘AI parliamentary scheme’ — supposedly to develop ‘effective scrutiny’ of artificial intelligence, but actually funded by the increasingly unsavoury tech giant itself