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Claudia Webbe
Children sit and play on the remains of a tank, at the river
Features / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE

NO SAFE ZONES: Children walk by the destroyed house of journ
Features / 8 April 2025
8 April 2025
As Israel’s crimes escalate, Keir Starmer’s government must not subvert, block or ignore the investigation and prosecution of British citizens involved in acts of genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
DEFIANT: Mexican
President Claudia
Sheinbaum
Features / 10 March 2025
10 March 2025
With trade wars backfiring, allies resisting military demands, and approval ratings plummeting, Trump’s dangerous pursuit of colonial ambitions threatens to end the ‘American century’ with catastrophic conflict, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
DAMAGING AGENDA:
Work and Pensions
Secretary Liz Kendall
Features / 24 February 2025
24 February 2025
Labour is deliberately continuing Tory policies that cost us £38 billion more than they save while driving illness rates higher — despite the evidence that previous sanctions doubled suicide attempts, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Wes Streeting gives a speech at the Fabian Society
Features / 10 February 2025
10 February 2025
The Labour Party, once the proud architect of our health service, has become its undertaker, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
HEAVY HANDED: Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Khalid
Features / 29 January 2025
29 January 2025
What we are seeing now in the policing of Gaza protests is a manifestation of an authoritarianism that the government intends to inflict on our country, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederati
Features / 14 January 2025
14 January 2025
Instead of responding to changed circumstances by adjusting policy, Reeves is using fiscal ‘rules’ as an excuse to force government departments to make even deeper cuts than she had already flagged, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
RAGE: Locals confront police 
guarding the Holiday Inn 
Expr
Features / 17 December 2024
17 December 2024
While Starmer courts BlackRock and backs genocide, leading to despair and historically low voter turnout, the vultures of the new populist right circle Britain’s crumbling institutions, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
PAWNING BRITAIN: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer with Black
Features / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
Keir Starmer’s BlackRock enthusiasm is a clear give-away for Tory continuity plans, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
UNFAIRLY TARGETED: A support group protests before the publi
Features / 19 November 2024
19 November 2024
The Stafford Hospital scandal’s false mortality statistics led to devastating service cuts despite evidence disproving the whole debacle, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE, warning of similar threats under Labour’s new plans for league tables
REFUSAL: Keir Starmer watches the opening ceremony for the C
Features / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
The Labour leadership’s refusal to even consider the widely accepted case for Britain to pay reparations for its part in the transatlantic slave trade is a sign of its imperialist worldview, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
'Skinny jab' manufacturer Lilly has a track record of lawsui
Features / 27 October 2024
27 October 2024
Labour’s controversial plan to put the overweight and unemployed on the ‘skinny jab’ Mounjaro should set alarm bells ringing once we look into some of the research into the drug and the company set to supply it, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
WASTELAND: A man walks as smoke rises from destroyed buildin
Features / 9 October 2024
9 October 2024
Israel’s tactics – with Western connivance – of incursion and expansion in Lebanon are not new, with invasions in 1978, 1982 and 2006 even prior to the current assault, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
WRONG ANSWERS : Lord Darzi’s ideas will lead to services l
Features / 24 September 2024
24 September 2024
CLAUDIA WEBBE warns that Starmer’s government is poised to accelerate harmful ‘integrated care’ policies, ignoring the reality that it is the decades of cuts and closures that have devastated public healthcare
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his speech and press conf
Features / 11 September 2024
11 September 2024
As Western liberal democracies crack down on journalists and activists, CLAUDIA WEBBE urges resistance against the Labour government’s part in this slide towards Saudi-style repression
MISERY: A woman sits on the curb next to her belongings outs
Features / 27 August 2024
27 August 2024
The so-called peace deal trumpeted by Blinken is so weighted towards Israel’s political goals as to be a total non-starter, while at the same time the US continues to reject any meaningful arms embargo, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
FACES OF HATE: Thugs seek
to intimidate refugees housed
in a
Opinion / 19 August 2024
19 August 2024
Successive governments have nurtured far-right sentiment through policies targeting minorities and protesters, while diverting attention from capitalism’s failures, meeting nine of Umberto Eco’s 14 points of fascism, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Sanjida consoles her mother after receiving the remains of h
Features / 30 July 2024
30 July 2024
Support for both the students and the workers of Bangladesh is an imperative, as they fight unjust and brutal government impositions, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
VICTORIOUS: Green Party
co-leader Carla Denyer after
casting
Features / 15 July 2024
15 July 2024
Labour’s low-vote landslide was enabled by the far right and opens the door wider to fascism, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Features / 4 July 2024
4 July 2024
Labour’s refusal to restore council funding is a betrayal of the vulnerable, and particularly of Send children and young people, says independent candidate CLAUDIA WEBBE
ATTACKED: A Sikh pilgrim in Amritsar in India’s Punjab reg
Features / 21 June 2024
21 June 2024
Pain and anger run through a community 40 years on as British Sikhs march demanding a full reckoning with Britain’s collusion in events in India that led to a genocide that butchered thousands, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Features / 7 June 2024
7 June 2024
Breaking the duopoly of British politics is not easy, but it is essential as working people are crying out for change, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
IGNORED: Tamils in Parliament Square call on the British gov
Features / 20 May 2024
20 May 2024
The Tamil genocide 15 years ago shows governments are refusing to enable justice and apply the lessons to the Gaza genocide today, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak greets supporters in Teesside cel
Features / 7 May 2024
7 May 2024
After 14 years of Tory rule there's little enthusiasm for Starmer and his menu of reheated Thatcherism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE