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Security outside Finchley Reform Synagogue in north London after an attempted arson attack was made overnight, according to MP Sarah Sackman, April 15, 2026
Racism / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026

Ministers urged to end ‘extremely dangerous’ conflation of criticism of Israel with anti-semitism

The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, April 18, 2026
Middle East / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech as he celebrates a Mass in the Saint Augustine Basilica in Annaba, Algeria, April 14, 2026
US / 18 April 2026
18 April 2026

The Pontiff has expressed outspoken opposition to war and ‘inhuman’ policies on immigration, undermining the president’s credibility among both allies and supporters alike, says GEOFF BOTTOMS

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Music / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026

New releases from Kneecap, Sam Blasucci, and Juni Habel

England's Sadia Kabeya gets free from Scotland's Rachel Malcolm during the Guinness Women's Six Nations 2026 match at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, April 18, 2026
Women’s Rugby Union / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
Work with the NEU
A child holding a Cuban national flag is silhouetted against a dawn sky during a celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the proclamation declaring the Cuban Socialist Revolution, in Havana, Cuba, April 16, 2026
Latin America / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (right) greets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, at the Meeting in Defence of Democracy summit, in Barcelona, Spain, April 18, 2026
International Diplomacy / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
Police officers at the site of a mass shooting in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18, 2026
Eastern Europe / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
Animal rights activists attempt to break into Ridglan Farms beagle breeding and research facility in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, April 18, 2026
Round-up / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
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READ OUR LIPS: Jewish Voice for Peace protesters block traffic during a demonstration outside the New York office of US Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday, April 13
US Imperialism / 18 April 2026
18 April 2026

DIANE ABBOTT looks at how a declining US has resorted to globalised violence to salvage any vestiges of political and economic hegemony

Policing / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

Assem Abdallah reacts as he enters his friend apartment destroyed in a Israeli airstrike in Kfar Roumman, southern Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah
Middle East / 18 April 2026
18 April 2026

Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon is just the latest of its recurring cycles of aggression in the region, says VIJAY PRASHAD

trade unionists calling for insourcing of their work. Credit to Daniel Shannon-Hughes
TUC LESE Regional AGM / 18 April 2026
18 April 2026

Outsourcing is at the heart of inequality. Only collective unity in the trade union movement can topple the Establishment’s obsession with it, says SAM GURNEY

Pope Leo XIV delivers his speech as he celebrates a Mass in the Saint Augustine Basilica in Annaba, Algeria, April 14, 2026
US / 18 April 2026
18 April 2026

The Pontiff has expressed outspoken opposition to war and ‘inhuman’ policies on immigration, undermining the president’s credibility among both allies and supporters alike, says GEOFF BOTTOMS

Rebecca Riots in Wales from the Illustrated London News 1855
Radical History / 18 April 2026
18 April 2026

Blending history, film and debate, the Bristol Radical History Festival will shine a light on class and resistance next weekend. LYNNE WALSH previews what’s on offer

Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk celebrates following the Premier League match at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Liverpool, April 19, 2026
Men’s Football / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
England goalkeeper Hannah Hampton makes a save from Spain's Edna Imade during the FIFA Women's World Cup 2027 Qualifying match at Wembley Stadium, London, April 14, 2026
Women’s Football / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
Manchester United's Matheus Cunha (second right) celebrates after scoring his sides first goal during the Premier League match at the Stamford Bridge, London, April 18, 2026
Men’s Football / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
Fulham's Oscar Bobb (right) after the Premier League match at the Community Stadium, Brentford, April 18, 2026
Men’s Football / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026
CONFORMISM v REBELLION: Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954 and Paul Robeson on a visit to London in 1958 Pics (L to R): Bob Sandberg/Public domain; PA
Book Review / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026

RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist

GOMBROWICZ HAUNT: Cafe Tortoni at 825 Avenida de Mayo / Pic: Dziczka/CC; insert Bohdan Paczowski/CC
Book Review / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026

CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile

TO EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS: San Andres neighbourhood of Mondragon with the Anboto mountain visible in the background ' Pic: Marisol Murua/CC
Book Review / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026

SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems

ENERGY AND EBULLIENCE: Cast of The Flying Dutchman / Pic: Craig Fuller
Opera / 19 April 2026
19 April 2026

DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles

BRINGING APARTHEID TO ITS KNEES: US Democrat and civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson who joined one of the marches through London to Trafalgar Square for the anti-Apartheid rally
Books / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

JOHN GREEN relishes the record of a life well lived in the service of the fight for justice and socialism

Lime Garden in action April 2026 / Pic Paul Hudson/flickr/CC
Music review / 17 April 2026
17 April 2026

EWAN KOTZ got to the Jacaranda Baltic in Liverpool only to be taken by strong songwriting of the emerging all-women Lime Garden