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Palestinians grieve over the bodies of their relatives, who
Britain / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
Meanwhile, Labour government toughens rhetoric against the genocide, but stops short of making any changes in policy or practical support for Israel
Clothing showing an image of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Eyes Left / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Protesters show placards as Britain's Chancellor Rachel Reev
Features / 29 March 2025
29 March 2025
While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves meeting military p
Aw That / 29 March 2025
29 March 2025
From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR
People take part in a national demonstration for Gaza from R
Editorial: / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Protesters demonstrate as Chancellor Rachel Reeves is about
Britain / 26 March 2025
26 March 2025
Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement
Protest 25.3.25
Britain / 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
Chancellor Reeves' planned public spending cuts will ‘open the door’ for Reform UK, McDonnell warns as campaigners get set to rally outside the Treasury
A far-right protest in Belfast city centre an anti-racism
Britain / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall leaves Downing Stree
Features / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS
Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives a speech on economic growth a
Britain / 23 March 2025
23 March 2025
‘If the last government taught us anything, it’s that you can’t cut your way to growth,’ unions and campaigners tell Reeves
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a reception to celebr
Editorial: / 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, L
Editorial: / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
A body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli army air strike
Britain / 18 March 2025
18 March 2025
As Israel breaks ceasefire with air strikes on Gaza, killing 400, and ministers backtrack on acknowledging Israeli war crimes, campaigners ask ‘how many more Palestinians will be slaughtered before Britain stops sending arms to Israel?’
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall arrives in Downing S
Britain / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
Disabled people and MPs mobilising against government's ‘appalling’ welfare cuts
Keep NHS Public
Features / 17 March 2025
17 March 2025
Behind Starmer’s headline-grabbing abolition of NHS England lies a ruthless drive to centralise control so that cuts of £6.6 billion can be made — even if it means reducing cancer services and clinical staff, writes JOHN LISTER
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Tax rich instead of cutting benefits, PM told
A general view outside of Old Trafford, home of Manchester U
Men’s football / 11 March 2025
11 March 2025
Keir Starmer, front center, hosts the European leaders' summ
Features / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
As European leaders compete to increase military spending while threatening welfare cuts, the burden will fall disproportionately on working people and minority communities, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with French President Emmanu
Features / 7 March 2025
7 March 2025
CARLOS MARTINEZ condemns Europe’s failure to develop genuine autonomy from US hegemony, as leaders like Starmer and Macron cling to a declining imperial order rather than building good relations with the emerging powers
PM+KS
Features / 7 March 2025
7 March 2025
You’ll never guess why a quick peace in Ukraine might be in the ambassador to Washington’s interests, writes SOLOMON HUGHES. Actually, of course you will – he stands to make a lot of money from his business links to Russia
Leaders of the Labour Representation Committee in 1906. From
Features / 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
The formation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 marked the beginning of interconnected and contested strategies — parliamentary and industrial — seeking ways to advance working-class interests, writes KEITH FLETT
A climate activist interrupts Chancellor Rachel Reeves's key
Britain / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
The office of Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and
Features / 2 March 2025
2 March 2025
The trio were given a conditional discharge and £600 penalties after painting ‘Stop arming Israel’ on Science Secretary Peter Kyle’s window in frustration at being ignored despite attempts to meet their MP, reports JOE GILL
STARMER AND TRUMP
Britain / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
Energy Secretary Ed Miliband outside Downing Street, London,
Britain / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
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Features / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85
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Book Review / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
ANDREW MURRAY welcomes the inside story of Labour under Starmer for the revelations it offers as to who is pulling the strings
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech during a welc
Editorial: / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (left), on the picket l
Britain / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
a general view from Blackpool Tower of terraced houses in Bl
Features / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
Above-inflation rent increases will push council tenants deeper into poverty while failing to address the housing crisis — and it won’t really raise any money, as council rent arrears are doubling across the country, argues MARTIN WICKS
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Features / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
JULIE SHERRY looks ahead to this weekend’s Stand Up to Racism and trade unions conference that will play a vital part in developing the urgent anti-fascist fightback
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leaves after delivering a st
Britain / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury, January 11, 2025
Britain / 24 February 2025
24 February 2025
SL+AS
Features / 22 February 2025
22 February 2025
The Scottish Labour conference this weekend will be the last call to save the party from electoral ignominy in 2026, argues CRAIG ANDERSON
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Features / 21 February 2025
21 February 2025
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
Campaigners take part in a protest against the government's
Editorial: / 20 February 2025
20 February 2025