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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks with the media at the Rolls-Royce factory in Derby, following the announcement from the Office for National Statistics that the UK economy grew by 0.7% between January and March, May 15, 2025
Editorial: / 15 May 2025
Sustained growth needs a shift in policy
15 May 2025
Protesters from the Glasgow Disability Alliance demonstrating outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, May 13, 2025
Editorial: / 15 May 2025
The assisted dying Bill is back – and if anything, it’s worse
15 May 2025
Mourners pray over the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli military airstrike that hit a U.N. school, during a funeral in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Monday, May 12, 2025
Editorial / 13 May 2025
Baron Cryer and Jonathan Turner: two vile genocide supporters reveal their own degradation
13 May 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London
Editorial: / 12 May 2025
Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing
12 May 2025
Ballot boxes arrive for votes for the Welsh Parliamentary El
Editorial / 11 May 2025
MPs have a point on electoral reform – but we need to think bigger
11 May 2025
Turkmenistan's servicemen march along Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 9, 2025, during celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II
Editorial / 9 May 2025
Why global South leaders have gathered in Moscow for Victory Day
9 May 2025
Kashmiri villagers are escorted by police as they walk after they are evacuated from their village following overnight shelling from Pakistan in Uri district, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 9, 2025
Editorial / 9 May 2025
India and Pakistan on the brink of war
9 May 2025
A man reacts over the bodies of some of the victims of an Israeli army strike on a restaurant, which killed at least 29 people, in Gaza City, May 7, 2025
Editorial / 8 May 2025
Palestine solidarity is now breaking the political consensus and isolating Labour
8 May 2025
Ve Day Celebrations in London, 8 May 1945
Editorial: / 7 May 2025
Celebrate VE Day, and remember the lessons of the anti-fascist war
7 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to a defence contractor in Bedfordshire, to launch UAS StormShroud into operational service, May 2, 2025
Editorial / 6 May 2025
Starmer’s seemingly suicidal spiral is losing votes on all fronts
6 May 2025
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage and party chairman Zia Yusuf, during a Reform UK press conference at Royal Horseguards Hotel in London, March 17, 2025
Editorial: / 5 May 2025
Back to school with Mr Yusuf and his ‘remoralisation’ mission
5 May 2025
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage with his party's candidates onstage during a campaign event at Stafford Showground, Stafford, whilst campaigning for this week's local elections, April 30, 2025
Editorial: / 4 May 2025
Three tasks we face in confronting an empowered Reform UK
4 May 2025
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage with his party's candidates onstage during a campaign event at Stafford Showground, Stafford, whilst campaigning for this week's local elections, April 30, 2025
Editorial: / 2 May 2025
Reform's rise in the local elections: what's happening and why
2 May 2025
A Yemeni soldier inspects the damage reportedly caused by U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, April 27, 2025
Editorial: / 1 May 2025
Britain’s joint air strikes on Yemen are another dangerous escalation
1 May 2025
Hundreds of shipping containers at the Grangemouth Terminal near Falkirk
Editorial: / 30 April 2025
As imperialism and militarism threaten human progress, Workers of the World, Unite!
30 April 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during a visit to Ramsgate in Kent, whilst on the local election campaign trail, April 24, 2025
Editorial: / 29 April 2025
'Welfare Not Warfare' is the answer to Reform UK
29 April 2025
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism during a counter-protest against a Pro-UK rally endorsed by Tommy Robinson in central London, October 26, 2024
Editorial / 28 April 2025
Rebuilding local labour movements is key to defeating the far right
28 April 2025
People take part in the annual Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) annual St Andrew's Day march and rally in Glasgow, in solidarity with those impacted by racism and racial discrimination throughout Scotland, November 25, 2023
Editorial / 27 April 2025
Scotland’s trade unionists know that class politics can beat the populist right
27 April 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a keynote speech during the Future of Energy Security Summit, hosted by the International Energy Agency and UK Government at Lancaster House in London, April 24, 2025
Editorial / 26 April 2025
Step by step, rupture by rupture, Starmer’s position is crumbling
26 April 2025
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (centre) speaks to troops during a visit to a military base training Ukrainian troops with New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, in the west of England, April 22, 2025
Editorial / 25 April 2025
Peace is on the cards in Ukraine – and Starmer needs to stop blocking it
25 April 2025
A solar panel installed on a home in Ohio, April 2025. Photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP
Editorial / 24 April 2025
Earth Day is a sad reminder of how long we have been failing our planet
24 April 2025
Flowers are placed in front of a picture of Pope Francis at Westminster Cathedral in centra
Editorial / 23 April 2025
Pope Francis will be missed
23 April 2025
Workers load coal on trucks at a coal yard port on the Yangtze River in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on April 20, 2025
Editorial / 21 April 2025
The new appeasement is to line up with Trump
21 April 2025
People take part in an anti-Trump protest in Trafalgar Squar
Editorial: / 18 April 2025
Trump's state visit can focus left campaigns for a political alternative
18 April 2025

Building opposition into a political campaign

NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede. 'The NEU decision to ca
Editorial: / 17 April 2025
Educators are at the heart of the fight against the far right
17 April 2025
US President Donald Trump holds an American football during
Editorial: / 16 April 2025
Failing at both economic war and real war, Trump’s alliances realign
16 April 2025
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds arrives as coking coal
Editorial: / 15 April 2025
Blame British Steel's crisis on privatisation, not China or Net Zero
15 April 2025
Counter protesters ahead of an anti-immigration protest in W
Editorial: / 14 April 2025
MPs rightly reject claims of ‘two-tier policing’ – now they must defend the right to protest
14 April 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to meet British S
Editorial: / 13 April 2025
Scunthorpe's rescue is a crack in the wall Labour has erected against public ownership
13 April 2025
President Donald Trump listens to Jeff Crowe speak during an
Editorial: / 11 April 2025
Trump's 90-day pause – 90 days of blackmail, bullying and looming war
11 April 2025
People stand outside a brokerage house as an electronic boar
Editorial: / 10 April 2025
Targeting China: the naked imperialism behind Trump’s trade policy
10 April 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (second left) chairs a roundtabl
Editorial: / 9 April 2025
Facing Trump's trade war, Labour is a rabbit in the headlights
9 April 2025
Palestinians wait to get donated food at a distribution cent
Editorial: / 8 April 2025
Starmer must change Gaza policy, not just words
8 April 2025
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen (left) reacts with Jor
Editorial: / 7 April 2025
Le Pen: far-right but not Eurosceptic now money and power are on offer
7 April 2025
People carry signs during a
Editorial: / 6 April 2025
Protests in the US show a people’s mass movement can be rebuilt
6 April 2025
Viktor Orban stands in front of the Israeli flag while welco
Editorial: / 4 April 2025
Orban, Israel and the ICC: the end of the 'rules-based order'
4 April 2025
Veteran Labour politician, Tony Benn, in Grosvenor Square, L
Editorial: / 3 April 2025
Salute the memory of Tony Benn on his centenary
3 April 2025
US President Donald Trump meeting Prime Minister Keir Starme
Editorial: / 2 April 2025
Standing up to Trump – an opportunity for the left?
2 April 2025
President Donald Trump speaks at a reception celebrating Wom
Editorial: / 1 April 2025
Trump’s ‘liberation’ means war for the world
1 April 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
Starmer copies the Tories in misrepresenting migration
31 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves arrives to host a
Editorial: / 30 March 2025
The new minimum wage is still far from being a real living wage
30 March 2025
People take part in a national demonstration for Gaza from R
Editorial: / 28 March 2025
Yet more anti-protest laws: a bid to crush the peace movement
28 March 2025
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Editorial: / 27 March 2025
Reeves’s brutal Budget only serves capitalism: we must escalate the resistance
27 March 2025
Protesters march towards Parliament Square, London, as Chanc
Editorial: / 26 March 2025
Reeves's austerity mark II: we are being robbed, again
26 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (center) and Defence Secretary J
Editorial: / 25 March 2025
Stop Posturing, Keir, and Give Peace a Chance
25 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves arrives to meet st
Editorial: / 24 March 2025
Public services can't wear further cuts – Reeves must be stopped
24 March 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves lays mortar on to
Editorial: / 23 March 2025
Axe-mad Reeves aligns Britain's Labour government with Trump and Musk
23 March 2025
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally o
Editorial: / 21 March 2025
Unions must go on the offensive to reshape this country
21 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a reception to celebr
Editorial: / 20 March 2025
What is the point of Labour? The key question
20 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Editorial: / 19 March 2025
Under Starmer, things can only get worse – we need to wake up
19 March 2025
People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London,
Editorial: / 18 March 2025
We must take to the streets to protest these fresh Israeli massacres
18 March 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking to the media in Dow
Editorial: / 17 March 2025
‘Schrodinger’s Russian threat’ fails to convince MPs to back Starmer's militarism
17 March 2025
Smoke rises from a location reportedly struck by U.S. airstr
Editorial: / 16 March 2025
Barbaric US attacks on Yemen risk a major Middle Eastern war
16 March 2025
Mourners gather in 2019 to mark the fifth anniversary of the
Editorial: / 14 March 2025
From Odessa to Syria, beware the West's 'democratic' allies
14 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a Q&A session after deliv
Editorial: / 13 March 2025
Whose state? Starmer’s speech solves nothing for a country in crisis
13 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, Londo
Editorial: / 12 March 2025
Build the revolt against Starmer's war on disabled people
12 March 2025
Elon Musk flashes his t-shirt that reads ‘DOGE’ to the m
Editorial: / 11 March 2025
Ban Elon Musk’s money from manipulating any hard-right split
11 March 2025
Ukrainian soldiers train at the military training ground in
Editorial / 10 March 2025
More ‘gambling with World War III’ as Zelensky makes another desperate bid for support
10 March 2025
A PostNord van on the road in Denmark
Editorial: / 9 March 2025
PostNord shows us why we must fight for the concept of public services
9 March 2025
Women's rights campaigners in Westminster, London after taki
Editorial: / 8 March 2025
Women's liberation and liberalism's collapse: left dilemmas
8 March 2025