As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Yo, Starmer — the return to the void
VINCE MILLS on the yawning gulf between Labour’s position and public opinion on Gaza
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
THE Gazan crisis has surely exposed, if indeed it wasn’t already perfectly obvious, that Keir Starmer is prepared to brook no obstacle in his obeisance to US imperialism, even before he takes office as the British prime minister.
The title of this article refers to an infamous, patronising greeting offered to Tony Blair by George W Bush in July 2006 at the St Petersburg G8 summit.
A few days before that summit, Hezbollah militants crossed from Lebanon into Israel and ambushed two Israeli army vehicles, killing three soldiers and capturing two others, using rockets fired on several Israeli towns as a diversion. In response Israel launched a devastating attack on Lebanon.
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