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An elderly lady with her electric fire on at home in Liverpool
Cost-of Living Crisis / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025

Government urged to tackle high electricity prices and boost insulation in next week’s Budget as elderly, low-income families and homeless people struggle to stay warm

People take part in the Resist Racism Scotland rally in George Square, Glasgow, organised by Stand Up To Racism and the STUC, March 18, 2023
Human Rights / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025
Jeremy Corbyn, with Zarah Sultana (not pictured) speaking at a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester, October 10, 2025
Editorial: / 18 November 2025
18 November 2025
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood leaves the BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, November 16, 2025
Human Rights / 17 November 2025
17 November 2025

Far-right figures ‘Tommy Robinson’ and Nigel Farage praise Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plans to force asylum seekers into 20 years of limbo before being able to settle in Britain

NHS resident doctors outside St Thomas' Hospital in London, as thousands of resident doctors go on strike across England in a dispute over pay, November 14, 2025
Workers' Rights / 17 November 2025
17 November 2025
Children leaving a school in Leeds, March 2020
The Budget / 11 November 2025
11 November 2025
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester. Picture date: Friday October 10, 2025
Eyes Left / 12 November 2025
12 November 2025

While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month

Staff arrive at BBC Broadcasting House in London after BBC Director-General Tim Davie resigned. Tim Davie has announced he will step down as director-general of the BBC after five years in the role, saying there have
Editorial: / 10 November 2025
10 November 2025
Austerity / 10 November 2025
10 November 2025
Christina McAnea
Workers' Rights / 10 November 2025
10 November 2025

Roger McKenzie talks to general secretary of Unison CHRISTINA McANEA about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on members, the local government funding emergency and the threat of Reform UK

The sun rising behind a redundant oil platform moored in the Firth of Forth near Kirkcaldy, Fife, April 27, 2020
Climate Crisis / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest during a protest by people attending a Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, which is housing asylum seekers. Picture date: Sunday September 21, 2025
Editorial: / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
RMT in Whitehall
Workers' Rights / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair during the Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit in Egypt, October 13, 2025
Neoliberalism / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
NHS resident doctors protest outside Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, as resident doctors in England, July 25, 2025
Workers' Rights / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
Former Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen addresses supporters, after the party allegedly blocked her from standing over past posts on social media website X, outside a supermarket in Highams Park, north-west London, May 31, 2024
Parliamentary Politics / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
6/09/25 of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks during the Global Progress Action Summit, at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London
Editorial / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street in central London, ahead of the Budget later this month. Picture date: Tuesday November 4, 2025
The Budget / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP

Acorn activists
Renters' Rights / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the mayoral election in New York, November 4, 2025
Socialism / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street in central London, ahead of the Budget later this month, November 4, 2025
The Budget / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Strategic Command Headquarters, in Northwood, Greater London May 22, 2025
War / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and then British ambassador to the US Lord Peter Mandelson  in Washington, DC, February 27, 2025
Honour System / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester ,October 10, 2025
Parliamentary Politics / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025

MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures

(Left to right) Reform UK chairman David Bull, Reform UK MP for Ashfield Lee Anderson, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice, Danny Kruger and Reform UK Head of Policy Zia Yusuf, listen as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivers his speech at Banking Hall in the City of London. Picture date: Monday November 3, 2025
Politics / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025

Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales 

Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English), Lake Success, New York, November 1949
Britain / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London. The Immigration White Paper is being presented as part of Government efforts to reduce net migration into the UK, with the figure reaching 728,000 in 2024
Britain / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

New poll exposes fears around migration as ‘manufactured’

Cartoon: Songi
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT

Chancellor of Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to the Sipsmith Distillery in Chiswick West London, to highlight how the India Free Trade Agreement is supporting British Business. Picture date: Thursday October 9, 2025
Labour Party / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025
First Minister John Swinney and Plaid Cymru Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth during a meeting at Bute House in Edinburgh. The meeting will provide the opportunity to discuss shared areas of interest including the cost of living crisis, the forthcoming UK Government Budget and the relationship between Scotland and Wales, October 30, 2025
Parliamentary Politics / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025
People wave flags as Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 30, 2025
Labour Party / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025
Waiting for news after the Senghenydd pit disaster
Eyes Left / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

With the last bricks of the red wall crumbling in the Caerphilly by-election, Starmer and co cannot count on the spectre of Farageism translating into votes for them come the next general election, argues ANDREW MURRAY

People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest during a protest by people attending a Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, which is housing asylum seekers. Picture date: Sunday September 21, 2025
Refugees / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

Home Office has ‘repeatedly cut corners and wasted considerable amounts of taxpayers’ money,’ report warns about the policy

Lunar House in Croydon, south London which houses the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office
Voices of Scotland / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING

05/07/25 of Labour leader (now Prime Minister) Sir Keir Starmer speaking to supporters at the Tate Modern, central London
Editorial / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025
A view of, £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes
Neoliberalism / 26 October 2025
26 October 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaking at the Regional Investment Summit at Edgbaston Stadium, in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday October 21, 2025
Austerity / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS

Andrew ‘The Duke of York’ Windsor pictured with new recruits to the Royal Irish Regiment at a passing out parade in Ballymena, Ireland, October 17, 2025
Monarchy / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025
Minister for the Armed Forces Luke Pollard MP during the Steel Cut ceremony for the Royal Navy's third in class Type 31 frigate, HMS Formidable, at Babcock International Group, in Rosyth. Picture date: Wednesday October 9, 2024
Scotland / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaking at the Regional Investment Summit at Edgbaston Stadium, in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday October 21, 2025
Employment / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

Labour could break pledge to equalise minium wage, warn campaigners 

A sign in a field by the M40 near Warwick, protesting the changes to inheritance tax (IHT) rules, November 2024
Landownership / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises

Smoke from flares thrown by fans fills the field before the soccer derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was called off Sunday after pregame disturbances led police to deem it unsafe to proceed at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025
Features / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE