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Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during the first meeting for the reshuffled Cabinet in Downing Street, London, September 9, 2025
Editorial / 9 September 2025
Labour members deserve deputy leadership choice
9 September 2025
President Donald Trump speaks as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth holds a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, September 5, 2025, in Washington
Editorial / 8 September 2025
‘Defence’ spending or war? With Trump the mask is off
8 September 2025
Police officers remove a protester as demonstrators take part in a Lift the Ban on Palestine Action protest organised by Defend our Juries in Parliament Square in London. Picture date: Saturday September 6, 2025
Editorial / 7 September 2025
Defend Our Juries is right — mass arrests for Palestine can be a poll tax moment
7 September 2025
People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, August 30, 2025
Editorial / 5 September 2025
Unions need militancy and unity to seize the political initiative from the right
5 September 2025
Elizabeth Tower, part of the Palace of Westminster, is seen with a Metropolitan Police officer in Parliament Square, London
Editorial / 4 September 2025
The left must defend free speech
4 September 2025
Military personnel take part in a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025
Editorial / 3 September 2025
Beijing’s victory parade is a reminder: the world does not belong to, or revolve around, the West
3 September 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Horiba Mira in Nuneaton, to mark the launch of the Government's Industrial Strategy, June 23, 2025
Editorial / 2 September 2025
The buck stops with Starmer, but Reeves is a convenient scapegoat
2 September 2025
St George's flags fly from lampposts in Highters Heath in south Birmingham, August 27, 2025
Editorial / 1 September 2025
This campaign of flag-raising is an organised far-right offensive
1 September 2025
Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN general assembly last year
Editorial / 31 August 2025
Banning Palestinians from the UN is an abuse of US power with grim implications
31 August 2025
Protesters hold placards during a demonstration held by the London Freelance branch of the National Union of Journalists to honour journalists killed in Gaza, opposite Downing Street in London, August 27, 2025
Editorial / 29 August 2025
Israel seeks to silence the truth by targeting journalists
29 August 2025
People take part in a Stand Up To Racism rally outside the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Horley, Surrey, August 23, 2025
Editorial / 28 August 2025
To defeat the far right, build a class-conscious left
28 August 2025
A tanker from Thames Water
Editorial / 27 August 2025
The neoliberal model of privatised water is sunk
27 August 2025
Nigel Farage
Editorial / 26 August 2025
We must unite communities against Farage’s mass deportations plan
26 August 2025
People demonstrating at an Abolish Asylum System protest outside the Radisson Hotel in Perth, August 23, 2025
Editorial / 25 August 2025
The US is promoting incendiary far-right politics in Britain
25 August 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attends the national Service of Remembrance, hosted by the Royal British Legion in partnership with the Government, to mark the 80th Anniversary of VJ Day at the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire. Picture date: Friday August 15, 2025
Editorial / 24 August 2025
Labour’s opponents write...
24 August 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, July 31, 2025
Editorial / 22 August 2025
Open defiance of the preposterous abuse of the Terrorism Act is growing
22 August 2025
A man walks past a mural depicting the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, with a message that reads in Arabic,
Editorial / 21 August 2025
The mocking of Marwan Barghouti showed Israel’s genocidal intentions
21 August 2025
Police officers outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping, July 31, 2025
Editorial / 20 August 2025
The far right has now won a significant victory against asylum-seekers
20 August 2025
President Donald Trump (left) and Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, August 15, 2025
Editorial / 19 August 2025
Trump understands Putin’s position better than European leaders
19 August 2025
Israeli soldiers sit on the top of tank parked on an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025
Editorial: / 18 August 2025
It is time for our government to finally sanction Israel
18 August 2025
President Donald Trump (right) Russia's President Vladimir Putin arrive for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, August 15, 2025
Editorial / 17 August 2025
The Alaska talks and the need to escalate the peace movement
17 August 2025
Civilians and service personnel in London's Piccadilly Circus celebrate the news of Allied Victory over Japan in August 1945
Editorial: / 15 August 2025
VJ day – honour the cause of peace amid the drive to war
15 August 2025
US vice president JD Vance playing golf at Trump Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire, during his visit to the UK. Picture date: Thursday August 14, 2025
Editorial: / 14 August 2025
Hypocritical US ‘free speech’ concerns are an opportunity for the left to reclaim that vital cause
14 August 2025
Traditional Russian wooden dolls called Matryoshka depicting Soviet Leader Josef Stalin, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and U.S. President Donald Trump are displayed for sale at a souvenir shop in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025
Editorial: / 13 August 2025
Nato splinters as Trump and Putin edge toward a peace deal for Ukraine
13 August 2025
a Doctor holding a stethoscope
Editorial: / 12 August 2025
Why is violence against NHS staff – and other essential workers – on the rise?
12 August 2025
Donald Trump
Editorial / 11 August 2025
Trump, the EU and the Alaska summit
11 August 2025
Rushanara Ali
Editorial: / 10 August 2025
The Rushanara Ali case is a spotlight on a broken housing sector
10 August 2025
An Israeli tank moves near the border of the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, August 6, 2025
Editorial / 8 August 2025
People power can shatter Israel’s sense of impunity
8 August 2025
Palestinian flag RCJ
Editorial / 7 August 2025
All power to those defying censorship and repression of Palestine solidarity
7 August 2025
Bonfires are lit along the Motoyasu River in front of the Atomic Bomb Dome during a remembrance ceremony in Hiroshima, August 5, 2025 on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing
Editorial / 6 August 2025
80 years after Hiroshima, the taboo on nuclear war is dangerously eroded
6 August 2025
Trucks loaded with container move through a container terminal port in Shanghai, China, Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Editorial: / 5 August 2025
Take leaves out of the book of Chinese economic and social planning
5 August 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Rolls Royce at Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, July 25, 2025
Editorial / 4 August 2025
Reeves’s Corbyn jibes show up a government in denial
4 August 2025
People walk down a street surrounded by buildings destroyed by Israeli bombardments in the Gaza Strip, July 29, 2025
Editorial / 3 August 2025
Israeli extremism, Western hypocrisy and Palestinian statehood
3 August 2025
President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the East Room of the White House, February 13, 2025, in Washington
Editorial / 1 August 2025
Trump’s tariff frenzy: time to end the abusive relationship with Washington
1 August 2025
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, ahead of a march from the hospital to Trafalgar Square, May 1, 2023
Editorial / 31 July 2025
Looming NHS disputes could change the political weather
31 July 2025
People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in London, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gathered senior ministers for an urgent Cabinet meeting on Gaza. It comes as the Prime Minister faces renewed pressure to recognise Palestine as a state immediately and after he held an emergency call with France and Germany at the weekend. Picture date: Tuesday July 29, 2025
Editorial: / 30 July 2025
Starmer and Palestine – redouble the pressure
30 July 2025
An aerial view of terraced houses in south west London
Editorial / 29 July 2025
Capitalism’s inbuilt features are the source of the housing crisis
29 July 2025
Defence Secretary John Healey during a visit to the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier during the Talisman Sabre 2025 Closing Ceremony in Darwin, Australia, July 27, 2025
Editorial / 28 July 2025
Why Britain should not be rattling sabres at China over Taiwan
28 July 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (left), Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South and Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) (right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station. Picture date: Thursday August 18, 2022
Editorial: / 27 July 2025
Huge enthusiasm for a new socialist party shows the left never went away
27 July 2025
Bin lorries reverse back into the depot at the Birmingham megapicket. Photo: Neil Terry Photography
Editorial / 25 July 2025
Mega pickets and mass defiance are overcoming decades of anti-union laws
25 July 2025
Members of Unite on the picket line in Tyseley, Birmingham, amid an ongoing refuse workers' strike in the city, April 1, 2025
Editorial / 24 July 2025
Birmingham’s bin strike becomes a battle for the entire working class
24 July 2025
Police officers and protesters on Hemnall Street in Epping, after a protest outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex. There have been a number of demonstrations outside the hotel, believed to be housing asylum seekers, since police charged 38-year-old asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu with sexual assault following an incident where he is alleged to have attempted to kiss a 14-year-old girl. Picture date: Sunday July 20, 2025
Editorial: / 23 July 2025
Strategic thought is needed to hone anti-fascist campaigning
23 July 2025
Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting, July 22, 2025
Editorial / 22 July 2025
‘Appalled’ and ‘sickened?’ David Lammy’s hand-wringing on Gaza fools no-one
22 July 2025
Vivian Figueiredo (right), cousin of Jean Charles de Menezes, looks across at a mosaic of Jean outside Stockwell Tube station in south London where he was shot dead by police, July 22, 2009
Editorial / 21 July 2025
Twenty years since police executed Jean-Charles de Menezes with impunity
21 July 2025
Metropolitan Police officers remove a person at a protest in Parliament Square, central London, in support of Palestine Action, organised by Defend Our Juries who are campaigning to de-proscribe the organisation, July 19, 2025
Editorial / 20 July 2025
Welcome to modern Britain, where spilling paint is ‘terrorism’ but spilling the blood of thousands isn’t
20 July 2025
Diane Abbott speaking at the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025
Editorial / 18 July 2025
Starmer’s punishment of Diane Abbott won’t quell the rising resistance
18 July 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in Downing Street, London, on his first official visit to the UK. Picture date: Thursday July 17, 2025
Editorial / 17 July 2025
Purge of dissenting MPs is a sign of Starmer’s weakness
17 July 2025
Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaigners stage a protest on College Green in Westminster, London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget in the Houses of Parliament, October 30, 2024
Editorial / 16 July 2025
The rich are a threat to our economy and our democracy
16 July 2025
(left to right) Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during the concert celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, May 8, 2025
Editorial / 15 July 2025
New left party’s polling a wake-up call for Labour
15 July 2025
An Israeli army vehicle moves along the border of the Gaza strip, as seen from a southern Israel location, July 13, 2025
Editorial / 14 July 2025
The Bogota summit shows it is not the West that stands for a rules-based order
14 July 2025
LGSM members take part in the march at the Durham Miners' Gala, July 13, 2025
Editorial: / 13 July 2025
Against the government, against Reform: for class politics
13 July 2025
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner speaking during the Local Government Association annual conference at the ACC Liverpool, King's Dock, Port of Liverpool. Picture date: Thursday July 3, 2025
Editorial: / 11 July 2025
Unite suspending Rayner over Birmingham bin betrayal is a sign of changing times
11 July 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (centre) and French President Emmanuel Macron (right) look at screens during a joint military visit to the MARCOM centre, maritime command centre in Northwood, London, July 10, 2025
Editorial / 10 July 2025
Fear of ‘America First’ revives the Entente Imperiale, and raises the risk of nuclear annihilation
10 July 2025
FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice standing atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London
Editorial / 9 July 2025
Austerity’s authoritarian trajectory: why jury trials are under attack
9 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to Horiba Mira in Nuneaton, to mark the launch of the Government's Industrial Strategy, June 23, 2025
Editorial / 8 July 2025
Labour left must build on win on disability benefits
8 July 2025
Members of the press take photographs of wreaths laid by the Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the 7/7 Memorial, in Hyde Park, London, to mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in London on July 7th 2005 that killed 52 people. Picture date: Monday July 7, 2025
Editorial / 7 July 2025
Britain and the West’s murky relationship with jihadist terror
7 July 2025
Metropolitan Police officers remove 83-year-old Reverend Sue Parfitt from a protest in support of Palestine Action, organised by the Defend Our Juries group, in front of the Mahatma Gandhii statue in Parliament Square, central London, July 5, 2025
Editorial / 6 July 2025
Resist Labour’s assault on freedom of speech and protest
6 July 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Editorial / 4 July 2025
Is a left challenge to Labour now taking shape?
4 July 2025
Zarah Sultana speaking after a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London. Picture date: Saturday June 21, 2025
Editorial: / 3 July 2025
Zarah Sultana: if Palestine Action are banned as ‘terrorists’ who will be next?
3 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, July 2, 2025
Editorial / 2 July 2025
Starmer’s welfare 'reform' wobble: armourers boom, disabled doomed
2 July 2025
Money is stacked in front of the London Stock Exchange website displaying the FTSE 100 index. Picture date: Monday February 3, 2025
Editorial: / 1 July 2025
Rejoice! At long last, Polly Toynbee finds proof that capitalism doesn’t work
1 July 2025
Bob Vylan performing on the West Holts Stage, during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, June 28, 2025
Editorial / 30 June 2025
Glastonbury furore shows how fast our freedoms are being dismantled
30 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a media conference at the end of the Nato Summit at the Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025
Editorial / 29 June 2025
Sovereignty of peoples trumps the ideology of imperialism
29 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking to members of the media at the Nato Summit at the Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025
Editorial / 27 June 2025
Starmer’s retreat is partial – but it’s an opportunity to secure much more
27 June 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the British Chambers of Commerce Global Annual Conference at the QEII Centre, London. Picture date: Thursday June 26, 2025
Editorial / 26 June 2025
Starmer is digging his own grave
26 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with US President Donald Trump before the start of a North Atlantic Council plenary meeting during the Nato Summit at the Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025
Editorial / 25 June 2025
Starmer’s nuclear bomber fleet brings us all closer to the brink
25 June 2025
Israeli soldiers from the Home Front Command unit work at the site struck by an Iranian missile strike that killed several people, in Beersheba, Israel, June 24, 2025
Editorial: / 24 June 2025
This pause in fighting is a chance to force a British policy change for peace
24 June 2025
People take part in a demonstration at Trafalgar Square in London in support of Palestine Action. The Home Secretary is preparing to ban Palestine Action following the group's vandalism of two planes at an RAF base, making it a criminal offence to belong to or support Palestine Action. Picture date: Monday June 23, 2025
Editorial / 23 June 2025
Looming Palestine Action ban a dangerous assault on our freedoms
23 June 2025
Hundreds of thousands marched through London for peace in the Middle East on Saturday
Editorial / 22 June 2025
Trump and Netanyahu’s criminal aggression against Iran must be stopped
22 June 2025
People take part in a pro-Palestine protest outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Picture date: Wednesday June 4, 2025.
Editorial / 20 June 2025
The need for welfare not warfare is becoming ever more acute
20 June 2025
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer discuss politics during the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain Conference in central London, July 18, 2023
Editorial / 19 June 2025
As the war drums beat louder, the ghosts of the Iraq war haunt Starmer
19 June 2025
President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to board Air Force One at Calgary International Airport, June 16, 2025, in Calgary, Canada, on his way back to Washington
Editorial / 18 June 2025
Trump’s alarming G7 exit signals an unstable leader edging towards war with Iran
18 June 2025
An aerial view of Rochdale Town Centre
Editorial / 17 June 2025
The grooming gangs scandal is about class and gender, not religion and race
17 June 2025
Palestinian firefighters work to extinguish a fire following an Israeli strike that destroyed a building in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025
Editorial / 16 June 2025
History tells us Western military intervention ends in disaster
16 June 2025
People taking part in a demonstration organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement Britain (PYM) near the Israeli embassy in London, June 13, 2025
Editorial / 15 June 2025
Warplanes to the Middle East: Britain sides with the aggressor, again
15 June 2025
An Israeli soldier carries a shell next to a tank in northern Israel, September 27, 2024
Editorial / 13 June 2025
Ever wider war is now the logic of the Israeli state. It must be stopped
13 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (third left) and Defence Secretary John Healy (third right) talk with naval officers on the flight deck of HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy's flagship aircraft carrier, in Plymouth, Devon, April 24, 2025
Editorial / 12 June 2025
If Trump doesn’t stop Aukus, we must
12 June 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street, London, ahead of delivering her spending review in the House of Commons, June 11, 2025
Editorial / 11 June 2025
Reeves’s partial fixes don’t end austerity – and the drive to war goes on
11 June 2025
Thames Water delivering a temporary water supply from a tank
Editorial / 10 June 2025
The Thames Water fiasco tells us a lot about Starmer’s Labour
10 June 2025
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice at the count for the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election at the South Lanarkshire Council headquarters in Hamilton, June 5, 2025
Editorial / 9 June 2025
On pensions, Reform’s mask has slipped
9 June 2025
The Freedom Flotilla human rights organization Madleen boat is docked near Catania's harbor, Italy, June 1, 2025
Editorial / 9 June 2025
Free the Freedom Flotilla crew and end Israel’s murderous Gaza blockade
9 June 2025
People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London, June 7, 2025
Editorial / 8 June 2025
People’s Assembly demo must be just the start of a renewed fightback
8 June 2025
People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022
Editorial: / 6 June 2025
March against austerity – only pressure from below will force Labour to stop the cuts
6 June 2025
Liz Truss during the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, September 30, 2024
Editorial: / 5 June 2025
Even the left can learn lessons from the Liz Truss catastrophe
5 June 2025
People take part in a pro-Palestine march in central London organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, April 13, 2024
Editorial / 4 June 2025
Corbyn’s Gaza Inquiry Bill reflects public opinion – Starmer’s pro-war policy does not
4 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025
Editorial / 3 June 2025
Britain is the real threat to peace
3 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (centre), Defence Secretary John Healey (second right) and Managing Director of BAE Systems' naval ships business Simon Lister (right) speak to a member of staff during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025
Editorial / 2 June 2025
Starmer’s mantra of ‘Preparing for war’ is a self-fulfilling prophecy
2 June 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer (third left) and Defence Secretary John Healy (third right) talk with naval officers on the flight deck of HMS Prince of Wales, the Royal Navy's flagship aircraft carrier, in Plymouth, Devon, April 24, 2025
Editorial: / 1 June 2025
Military Keynesianism will kill our economy, not save it
1 June 2025
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre) attends the signing ceremony of ‘the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation’, in Hong Kong, May 30, 2025
Editorial: / 30 May 2025
From Hong Kong to the world: China’s peaceful resolution alternative
30 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at a military headquarters in north-west London, May 22, 2025
Editorial: / 29 May 2025
Starmer remains determined to stop a peace deal in Ukraine as he pushes his ‘coalition of the willing’
29 May 2025
A worker from Thames Water delivering a temporary water supp
Editorial: / 28 May 2025
Even record-breaking fines won’t touch Thames Water. Nationalise it
28 May 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference in Westminster, London, May 27, 2025
Editorial / 27 May 2025
Farage cashes in on Labour’s neoliberal delusion
27 May 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to the media at Strategic Command Headquarters, in Northwood, Greater London, May 22, 2025
Editorial / 26 May 2025
How real are Starmer’s concessions on welfare cuts?
26 May 2025
Signage at Waterloo train station in central London as South Western Railway (SWR) becomes the first rail operator to be renationalised under the Labour Government's Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act 2024, May 25, 2025
Editorial / 25 May 2025
A new dawn for Britain’s railway? The case for radicalism
25 May 2025
Keir Starmer
Editorial / 23 May 2025
Labour retreats on war and welfare: redouble the pressure
23 May 2025
(left to right) Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during the concert celebrating the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, May 8, 2025
Editorial / 22 May 2025
More than leaked secret memos are needed to rescue Labour’s mission
22 May 2025