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The Secret Intelligence Service building, known as MI6 in Vauxhall, London

Editorial / 15 December 2025

MI6 should stay out of politics – and talking up war with Russia is extremely dangerous

15 December 2025

Special forces are positioned on the roof of the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, December 14, 2025

Editorial / 14 December 2025

From battlefields to balance sheets: a world sliding toward war and collapse

14 December 2025

Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, November 4, 2025

Editorial / 12 December 2025

Robinson’s ‘Christianity’ reflects US leadership of the global far right

12 December 2025

President Donald Trump dances to music after speaking at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025

Editorial: / 11 December 2025

Time to stand up to Trump

11 December 2025

People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally on Whitehall in central London. Picture date: Wednesday September 11, 2024

Editorial / 10 December 2025

The Councillor Pledge for Palestine could have a big electoral impact

10 December 2025

Police remove a campaigner taking part in a Defend Our Juries protest in support of Palestine Action outside the Home Office, London. Picture date: Monday November 24, 2025

Editorial: / 9 December 2025

The Palestine Action hunger strikers face years behind bars without trial. Bail them now

9 December 2025

US President Donald Trump and former Prime Minister Tony Blair pose for a photo at the Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit in Egypt. Picture date: Monday October 13, 2025

Editorial: / 9 December 2025

For shame, keep Tony Blair away from the Middle East

9 December 2025

Charles Windsor reads the King's Speech in the House of Lord

Editorial: / 9 December 2025

Axe the Lords, not workers’ rights

9 December 2025

22/10/25 of people thought to be migrants wading through the sea to board a small boat in Gravelines, France

Editorial: / 8 December 2025

A rational approach to immigration policy is what’s needed

8 December 2025

People take part in a national day of protest against US policy on Venezuela in Brattleboro, Vermont, , December 6, 2025

Editorial: / 7 December 2025

Understanding the US’s new National Security Strategy

7 December 2025

First Minister Michelle O'Neill speaking to the Press Association in the offices of Sinn Fein at the Parliament Buildings, Stormont, head of the British Irish council meeting in Cardiff on Friday, December 4, 2025

Editorial / 5 December 2025

Lessons in anti-imperialism from across the Irish Sea

5 December 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference at Institute of Directors in central London, December 4, 2025

Editorial / 4 December 2025

Reform-Tory pact talk rings alarm bells

4 December 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (unseen) during a meeting inside 10 Downing Street, London, December 3, 2025

Editorial / 3 December 2025

Most believe a post-Starmer Labour is near – can unions help shape it?

3 December 2025

African leaders, European leaders and officials pose for a group photo during of the African Union-European Union summit in Luanda, Angola, November 24, 2025

Editorial: / 2 December 2025

Colonial crimes must be paid for

2 December 2025

Anti-racism protesters demonstrate in Newcastle, ahead of a far-right anti-immigration demonstration, August 10, 2024

Anti-Fascism / 2 December 2025

New Together Alliance can help resist the growing forces of division and racism

2 December 2025

Jeremy Corbyn speaking during the Your Party founding conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Sunday November 30, 2025

Editorial / 30 November 2025

Strengths and weaknesses on display at Your Party’s founding conference

30 November 2025

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester. Picture date: Friday October 10, 2025

Editorial: / 28 November 2025

Despite the controversies, ‘Your Party’ has great potential – socialists should welcome it

28 November 2025

FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice stands atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London

Editorial / 27 November 2025

Don’t trust the government with abolition of most jury trials

27 November 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves poses outside 11 Downing Street, London, with her ministerial red box, before delivering her Budget in the House of Commons, November 26, 2025

Editorial / 26 November 2025

Budget breakdown: taxing questions for the left

26 November 2025

Rescue workers put out a fire of a residential building which was heavily damaged by a Russian strike, in Ternopil, Ukraine, November 19, 2025

Editorial / 25 November 2025

The labour movement must back peace in Ukraine

25 November 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves poses outside 11 Downing Street, London, with her ministerial red box, October 30, 2024

Editorial / 25 November 2025

Yes, tax the rich – but the key question is who owns Britain

25 November 2025

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester, October 10, 2025

Editorial / 23 November 2025

‘Your Party’ needs to hold together to reach its potential

23 November 2025

Defence Secretary John Healey delivering a speech on how the UK's defence industry is delivering growth and national renewal across the UK, at No 9 Downing Street in central London, November 19, 2025

Editorial / 21 November 2025

Confront the war fever sweeping the continent

21 November 2025

LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER? Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday

Editorial / 20 November 2025

Labour left must focus on agenda before candidates

20 November 2025

Money stacked on top of an energy bill,

Editorial / 19 November 2025

It’s the monopoly power stitch-up that keeps our energy prices high

19 November 2025

Jeremy Corbyn, with Zarah Sultana (not pictured) speaking at a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester, October 10, 2025

Editorial: / 18 November 2025

Your Party can overcome its problems — but compromise is needed

18 November 2025

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood at the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Wednesday October 1, 2025

Editorial: / 17 November 2025

MPs should sink Mahmood’s awful asylum plan – but we must mobilise in case they don’t

17 November 2025

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaking after Lucy Powell is announced as the new Deputy Leader of the Labour Party at an event in central London, October 25, 2025

Editorial / 16 November 2025

Curbing refugee rights is no solution to Britain’s problems

16 November 2025

People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025

Editorial / 14 November 2025

A united front is what we need – but it must be more than just a slogan

14 November 2025

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during a press conference at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster, London, November 10, 2025

Editorial / 13 November 2025

Reform voting bloc can be challenged by the left

13 November 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, November 12, 2025

Editorial / 12 November 2025

Starmer may fall, but the right’s grip on Labour won’t be broken from within

12 November 2025

US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters upon arriving on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, November 9, 2025

Editorial / 11 November 2025

Trump is leading attack on democracy – the left must defend it

11 November 2025

Staff arrive at BBC Broadcasting House in London after BBC Director-General Tim Davie resigned. Tim Davie has announced he will step down as director-general of the BBC after five years in the role, saying there have

Editorial: / 10 November 2025

Crisis for the BBC and its foundational myths

10 November 2025

War medals to mark Remembrance Sunday ahead of the Sky Bet Championship match at the bet365 Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent. Picture date: Saturday November 8, 2025.

Editorial: / 9 November 2025

Opposing the misuse of Remembrance Sunday to glorify war

9 November 2025

People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest during a protest by people attending a Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, which is housing asylum seekers. Picture date: Sunday September 21, 2025

Editorial: / 7 November 2025

The left can beat Reform if it embraces class conflict

7 November 2025

6/09/25 of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks during the Global Progress Action Summit, at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London

Editorial / 6 November 2025

Chancellor Reeves should bin Blair’s Budget advice

6 November 2025

Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the mayoral election, in New York, November 4, 2025

Editorial: / 5 November 2025

Mamdani’s victory and the wider lessons to be drawn

5 November 2025

President Donald Trump is illuminated by a camera flash as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, in Washington, after returning from a trip to Florida

Editorial: / 4 November 2025

Britain must break with Trump's aggression

4 November 2025

Childcare

Editorial / 3 November 2025

Reliance on private capital could wreck Labour’s childcare reforms

3 November 2025

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Strategic Command Headquarters, in Northwood, Greater London May 22, 2025

War / 2 November 2025

Dangerous times threaten as Labour’s militarism expands

2 November 2025

bills

Editorial / 31 October 2025

Raising the basic rate of income tax could be suicidal for Labour

31 October 2025

Houses under construction on a housing development in Basingstoke

Editorial / 30 October 2025

Only public-sector investment and action can fix the housing crisis

30 October 2025

Yahya Eid mourns over the body of his 10-year-old nephew, Shabaan Eid, who was killed in an Israeli army strike on the Bureij camp, during his funeral at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, October 29, 2025

Editorial / 29 October 2025

Israel will keep killing Palestinians, ceasefire or no, unless it faces consequences

29 October 2025

Keir and Lucy

Editorial / 28 October 2025

Labour is neither listening nor learning

28 October 2025

05/07/25 of Labour leader (now Prime Minister) Sir Keir Starmer speaking to supporters at the Tate Modern, central London

Editorial / 27 October 2025

Immigration and crime: we need to bust the myths

27 October 2025

Reform UK MP for Runcorn, Sarah Pochin

Editorial: / 26 October 2025

Pochin’s poisonous diatribe – how do we turn the tide against rising racism?

26 October 2025

Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle (centre) makes a speech after being declared winner for the Caerphilly Senedd by-election, at Caerphilly Leisure Centre, October 24, 2025

Editorial / 24 October 2025

What Plaid’s Caerphilly victory means for left and anti-racist politics

24 October 2025

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, October 19, 2025, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Md., as he returns from a trip to Florida

Editorial / 23 October 2025

Trump’s feud with Petro suggests he is seriously mooting war on Venezuela

23 October 2025

The Bank of England, London

Editorial / 22 October 2025

A re-forged working class for itself is the only antidote to capitalism’s endless malaise

22 October 2025

The Duke of York laughs during a visit to Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset, January 29, 2015

Editorial: / 21 October 2025

Smears and secrecy: the Prince Andrew saga is characteristic of our rotten British state

21 October 2025

President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, August 18, 2025, in Washington

Editorial / 20 October 2025

Trump and Ukraine: following the money

20 October 2025

In this drone photo, buildings destroyed during two years of Israeli army bombardments are seen in Gaza City, October 15, 2025

Gaza Genocide / 20 October 2025

A fake ceasefire isn’t hiding Israel’s real, murderous agenda

20 October 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, October 15, 2025

Editorial / 19 October 2025

Cynical and inept, Starmer risks unleashing racist hooligans on Birmingham

19 October 2025

Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow. Picture date: Saturday August 10, 2024

Editorial / 17 October 2025

A rat race is for rats. We are human beings

17 October 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves after she gave her keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 29, 2025

Editorial: / 16 October 2025

Blame finance capital, not Brexit, for budget crisis

16 October 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a press conference at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, September 18, 2025

Editorial / 15 October 2025

The China spy saga – a concocted controversy to shackle us to Trump

15 October 2025

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at One Lodha Place, the location of the new offices of the British Deputy High Commission in Mumbai. The PM is visiting India to promote the recently signed trade deal with the south Asian nation. Picture date: Thursday October 9, 2025

Editorial: / 14 October 2025

Starmer’s coup by fraud is now laid bare

14 October 2025

People on Westminster Bridge as they take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign march in central London. Picture date: Saturday October 11, 2025

Editorial: / 14 October 2025

The Starmer regime’s new protest laws are an attack on our democracy

14 October 2025

President Donald Trump Israeli and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak after Netanyahu addressed the Knesset, Israel's parliament, October 13, 2025, in Jerusalem

Editorial / 13 October 2025

Palestine and its global supporters secured this ceasefire, not Trump

13 October 2025

Filia

Editorial / 12 October 2025

Attacks on feminist conference Filia’s right to organise must stop

12 October 2025

People on Waterloo Bridge as they take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign march in central London, October 11, 2025

Editorial / 12 October 2025

The huge Palestine march strikes a blow for humanity – and against authoritarianism and the far right

12 October 2025

Israeli soldiers move near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, October 9, 2025

Editorial / 10 October 2025

A pause in Netanyahu’s slaughter: can a new Israeli politics emerge?

10 October 2025

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick delivers a speech during the Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex, October 7, 2025

Editorial / 9 October 2025

The menace represented by Jenrick must not be easily dismissed

9 October 2025

Protestors wave flags as they wait for activists to arrive at Brussels International Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, October 7, 2025, after being deported from Israel for taking part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla

Editorial / 8 October 2025

Israel’s flagrant disregard for all laws and conventions continues

8 October 2025

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick removes a judge's wig from a black box as he delivers a speech during the Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex, October 7, 2025

Editorial / 7 October 2025

Jenrick’s outburst shows it is time to unite all possible forces against rising racism

7 October 2025

Pupils enjoying school dinners

Editorial / 7 October 2025

Child hunger crisis can be traced back to neoliberalism

7 October 2025

Union members on the picket line outside Scottish Water's scientific services department at Juniper House in Edinburgh, as Scottish Water workers go on strike in a dispute over pay and grading. Picture date: Tuesday April 22, 2025

Editorial: / 5 October 2025

Powerful working-class organisation needs clear and honest analysis

5 October 2025

Demonstrators pass by a mural on Cable Street in the East End of London which commemorates the Battle of Cable Street, October 9, 2016

Editorial / 3 October 2025

Cable Street shows the way – deepen anti-fascist struggle in communities and workplaces

3 October 2025

A member of the public is helped from the scene of an incident at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, October 2, 2025

Editorial / 2 October 2025

Stand with the Jewish community in the face of this anti-semitic outrage

2 October 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 30, 2025

Editorial / 1 October 2025

The Morning Star take on Labour conference 2025

1 October 2025

Displaced Palestinians girls carry a jerrycan after collecting water from a distribution point at a tent camp in Muwasi, an area that Israel has designated as a safe zone, in Khan Younis southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025

Editorial: / 30 September 2025

Labour’s vote on Palestine is a major victory for the solidarity movement

30 September 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves after she gave her keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference at the Liverpool Arena, September 29, 2025

Editorial: / 29 September 2025

Reeves can’t grasp the scale of Britain’s political crisis – this Labour leadership must go

29 September 2025