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Prime Minister Keir Starmer giving a speech at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre in Waterloo, London, as he sets out the next steps he is taking in his plan to build a stronger, fairer Britain, May 11, 2026
Labour Party / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom, Surrey, January 6, 2025
Editorial / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
Motorbikes drive past a billboard showing the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S. and Israel strikes on Feb. 28, in downtown Tehran, Iran, May 6, 2026
Middle East / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
South Africans protest against illegal migration, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 29, 2026
South Africa / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE

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Opinion / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

With thousands of AI‑written, edited or ‘polished’ books being sold, LAURA BEERS hears an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel‑writing machines’

NHS staff blockade the entrance to NHS England's headquarters in central London demanding the cancellation of its contract with Palantir, which campaign groups say supplies advanced technology to Israel's military, April 3, 2024
Big Tech / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026

US tech giant granted ‘unlimited access’ to patients’ data

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking to the media after meeting Labour Party members during a visit to AFC Wimbledon in south London, May 9, 2026
Scotland / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy arrives in Downing Street ahead of a Cabinet meeting, May 12, 2026
POA Conference 2026 / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
Lord James Timpson, Minister of State for Prisons, Parole and Probation at a roundtable discussion at London Probation Headquarters, February 12, 2025
POA Conference 2026 / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward
Wales / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa receives military honors during a welcome ceremony at the Planalto Presidential Palace, prior to a meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia, Brazil, March 9, 2026
South Africa / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
People hold up signs referring to pension age which read
Belgium / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius is seen at anchor at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, May 11, 2026
World / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026
A bulk cargo ship sits at anchor in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 2, 2026
Fossil Fuels / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026
Free will-writing service
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar looks on following his defeat in the Holyrood election at Glasgow International Arena, May 8, 2026
Voices of Scotland / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS

South Africans protest against illegal migration, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 29, 2026
South Africa / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE

Chacko and Peter Mertens
Pensions / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback

First Minister John Swinney addresses delegates during the STUC conference in the Caird Hall, Dundee, April 21, 2026
STUC / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement

TARGETED: The impressive memorial at Berlin’s Treptower Park. Photo: Tx0h / Creative Commons
Features / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026

Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports

FADING POPULARITY: Philosopher Slavoj Zizek has adopted pro-Nato positions. Photo: Andy Miah/Creative Commons
Full Marx / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026

Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY

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Books / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart

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Crime fiction / 12 May 2026
12 May 2026

Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer

SD albums
Album Reviews / 11 May 2026
11 May 2026

New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams 

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Exhibition review / 8 May 2026
8 May 2026

GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men

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Attila the Stockbroker Diary / 8 May 2026
8 May 2026

The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach

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BenchMarx / 8 May 2026
8 May 2026

KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it