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Yemenis watch as smoke billows following Israeli airstrikes targeting a power plant and Sanaa Airport, in Sanaa, Yemen, May 6, 2025
World / 6 May 2025
6 May 2025
An Israeli army tank maneuvers in the Gaza Strip is seen from southern Israel, May 4, 2025
World / 4 May 2025
4 May 2025

Ministers vote to escalate war on starving Palestinians

A DAY TO MOBILISE: May Day marchers in Clerkenwell Green in 2016
Features / 1 May 2025
1 May 2025

As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism

Palestinians inspect the remains of a displacement tent hit
World / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Chin
World / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni, centre right,walks toget
World / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
GLOBAL ANGER: Indians burn a US flag at a protest against Tr
Features / 8 April 2025
8 April 2025
While the immediate impact is disastrous, the US president’s actions could lead more nations to seek greater trading stability by refocusing their economies towards each other and countries such as China, writes ROGER McKENZIE
SYMBOLIC: Chetham's Library, Manchester, United Kingdom foun
Features / 3 April 2025
3 April 2025
Public libraries are sanctuaries which facilitate the exploration of the universe of ideas for free for those curious enough. ROGER McKENZIE advocates their protection against authoritarian incursions, US style
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in th
World / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Volunteers for an air-defence unit stand on their position w
World / 28 March 2025
28 March 2025
Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in
World / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on
World / 19 March 2025
19 March 2025
A body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli army air strike
Britain / 18 March 2025
18 March 2025
As Israel breaks ceasefire with air strikes on Gaza, killing 400, and ministers backtrack on acknowledging Israeli war crimes, campaigners ask ‘how many more Palestinians will be slaughtered before Britain stops sending arms to Israel?’
Yemenis clean debris in front of their shops after a U.S. ai
World / 16 March 2025
16 March 2025
People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, May 28, 2
World / 14 March 2025
14 March 2025
Chinese navy troops attending a joint naval drill with Iran
World / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Displaced Palestinians lives in a school run by UNRWA, the U
World / 11 March 2025
11 March 2025
Displaced Palestinians girls fill a plastic jerrycan with wa
World / 10 March 2025
10 March 2025
Israel follows through on threat to cut off electricity supply to the Palestinians in Gaza
Delegates and media watch as Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaks
World / 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Ukrainian Presi
World / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
World / 23 February 2025
23 February 2025
INSPIRATION: Malcolm X at 
the BBC’s Broadcasting House, L
Features / 20 February 2025
20 February 2025
ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
 IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE: Rafiki Theatre (Uganda) production
Book Review / 13 February 2025
13 February 2025
ROGER McKENZIE welcomes an important contribution to the history of Africa, telling the story in its own right rather than in relation to Europeans
People move along a road amid widespread destruction caused
World / 12 February 2025
12 February 2025
President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One a
World / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
The US Department of the Treasury building is seen in Washin
World / 11 February 2025
11 February 2025
ARRESTED: Education Bookshop owners Ahmad, left, and Mahmoud
Palestine / 10 February 2025
10 February 2025
An Israeli tank takes a position near the border with Gaza i
World / 9 February 2025
9 February 2025