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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
WHY AREN’T YOU AT WORK: Rishi Sunak prowls the wards of No
Features / 28 April 2024
28 April 2024
Rishi Sunak’s ‘clampdown on sick-note culture’ reflects the sickness of the ‘elites’ and the capitalist system they run, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Models on the catwalk during the Mark Fast show at Orchard P
Features / 9 April 2024
9 April 2024
In light of their vicious exploitation of workers and the massive ecological cost they bring, the government should be clamping down on fast fashion brands like Boohoo and Shein. Instead, it is enabling them, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Features / 26 March 2024
26 March 2024
Years of neoliberal capitalism have poisoned our societies since the 1980s, driving down pay and causing misery for families up and down Britain, says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
UNANSWERED QUESTIONS: Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nij
Features / 12 March 2024
12 March 2024
The Britain-India trade deal must stop until the truth is known about the anti-Sikh murder campaign, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
RESOLUTE: Protesters form a blockade outside L3Harris factor
Features / 29 February 2024
29 February 2024
We must not turn a blind eye to Britain's complicity in the suffering of the Palestinian people through its billion-pound weapons deals with some of the most oppressive governments in the world, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Staff on a NHS hospital ward, October 3, 2014
Features / 13 February 2024
13 February 2024
The expansion of ‘physician associates’ is intended to blur the lines between doctors and non-doctors to make the NHS more profitable for big business. We must take every opportunity to end it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Palestinians look for survivors following Israeli airstrike
Features / 31 January 2024
31 January 2024
Britain has gone from supplying the weapons and training to others to dropping the bombs itself — yet it is Yemen that is in fact acting to prevent further bloodshed, in line with international law explains CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Protesters wave flags and banners outside the International
Features / 16 January 2024
16 January 2024
The Anti-Boycott Bill is designed to hobble democracy and decency, but it’s also a sign the government is rattled says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Str
Features / 4 January 2024
4 January 2024
South Africa is right to invoke the Genocide Convention against Israel at the Hague, other countries should now support and follow, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
General view of staff on a NHS hospital ward, January, 2023
Features / 18 December 2023
18 December 2023
The government’s latest cost-cutting NHS manoeuvres are a risk to patient safety – they must be vigorously opposed, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Protesters outside the COP28 conference
Features / 12 December 2023
12 December 2023
Cop28 must tear out ‘the poisoned root’ of the fossil fuel industry if it is to contribute to saving the planet, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP, as she bears witness to the execrable charade in the UAE
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak opens the Global Food Security Su
Features / 20 November 2023
20 November 2023
The Tories’ latest assault on the sick and disabled is deadly and economically illiterate, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP