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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We are many and they are few – but the few have wealth and power
NICK WRIGHT looks at the pressures a left-led Labour government will face
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
IN THE last general election part of Labour’s appeal lay in its programme which, as it reached millions of voters, began to shape a new consensus — mostly working class but with support across wide sections of opinion.
Jeremy Corbyn’s emergence from a pack of identikit New Labour politicians was already an established fact.
The emergence of this kind of political personality into the mainstream gave a human dimension to the policy narrative.
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