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Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street in central London, ahead of the Budget later this month. Picture date: Tuesday November 4, 2025
The Budget / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP

File photo dated 29/01/15 of The Duke of York laughs during a visit to Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset. Prince Andrew is stop using all of his titles and honours, including the Duke of York, he has announced in a statement released by Buckingham Palace. Issue date: Friday October 17, 2025
Monarchy / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

KEITH FLETT recalls ‘the most advanced political programme to appear on the left until the time of the Bolsheviks’

A Remembrance tribute planted by Defence Secretary John Healey, during a service to mark the opening of the three House of Commons Gardens of Remembrance, in New Palace Yard, Westminster, November 3, 2025
History / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

As Armistice Day approaches, with the far right hoping to use it to promote their own form of ‘patriotism,’ NICK WRIGHT considers the nature of conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries and the different ways they should be remembered

People traverse a road flooded by Hurricane Melissa on the southern coast of Santiago de Cuba, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025
International Law / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025

Sixty years of blockade have not made Cuba collapse, but they have devastated it. While Washington stands isolated at the United Nations, the Cuban people are paying the price, writes KATRIEN DEMUYNCK

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
Politics / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025

Ahead of an important online meeting, HILARY SCHAN, CARL WALKER and MARGARET HOWARD of Worthing Independents discuss how integrating left-wing councillors within the new party could have a transformative effect

FACING US TERRORISM: Venezuelans protest against foreign interference in Caracas, Venezuela t-shirt message reads 'Yankee Go Home'
Latin America / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025

Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR

A man views a lifelike audiovisual installation of a Bowhead whale, highlighting Hull�s whaling heritage, at the Maritime Museum in Hull, forming part of the 2017 UK City of Culture Made in Hull programme
Science and Society / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer

Black Lives Matter protester
Features / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
Voices of Scotland / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence

Donald Trump nuclear test
Features / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND

richard gott
Obit / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

Scholar of Latin America, journalist and anti-imperialist, who leaves a powerful intellectual and political legacy

A forensic investigator on the platform by the train at Huntingdon train station in Cambridgeshire, after a number of people were stabbed on the train on Saturday. Two people have been arrested after British Transport Police were called to the incident. Picture date: Sunday November 2, 2025
Health and Safety / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken

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
Parliamentary Politics / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025

MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures

(Left to right) Reform UK chairman David Bull, Reform UK MP for Ashfield Lee Anderson, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice, Danny Kruger and Reform UK Head of Policy Zia Yusuf, listen as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivers his speech at Banking Hall in the City of London. Picture date: Monday November 3, 2025
Politics / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025

Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales 

Trinidad High Commission protest
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS

A State of Struggle
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers

Morning Star
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Across the country readers are rallying to the People’s Paper’s cause. Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER has some handy ideas on how to get involved

Colombia protest
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA

Cartoon: Songi
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT

Lindsay Whittle
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election

WARFARE NOT WELFARE: Defence Secretary John Healey (red tie) is shown the Tekever AR5 drone during a visit to Tekever's new military drone production facility, part of an expansion of the country's defence manufacturing capabilities, in Swindon, Wiltshire in September 2025
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

There is a popular way out of the British economic crisis, suggests MICHAEL BURKE

Robert Jenrick
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES

Sunflower
Features / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

EMMA DENT COAD laments the problems that have engulfed the newly launched Your Party and calls for a new spirit of focus to drive the work that needs to be done to overturn the desperation so many of us feel

Residents walk through Santa Cruz, Jamaica on Wednesday after Hurricane Melissa passed
Features / 1 November 2025
1 November 2025

Hurricanes might have natural causes but the tragedy that follows is entirely human-made and a consequence of capitalist greed, asserts ROGER McKENZIE

Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle celebrates after being declared winner for the Caerphilly Senedd by-election, at Caerphilly Leisure Centre. Picture date: Friday October 24, 2025
Wales / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

There is no substitute for hard work and on-the-ground organising when it comes to defeating the hard right, argues JOAO FELIX

Palestinians watch as Egyptian machinery and workers search for the bodies of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people, writes NAVID SHOMALI

CATASTROPHIC END OF THE LINE: Recent die-off of bees in the Groot Winterhoek mountains is linked to widespread pesticide poisoning, with cases confirmed in February 2025 / Pic: Discott/CC
Race / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE

Rail staff at Waverley station, Edinburgh
STUC Women’s Conference 2025 / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system

Marx Memorial Library meeting
Features / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

KELLIE O’DOWD reports on an event to highlight the GMB sisterhood

 

 

Women’s campaigners
Features / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

The Scottish labour movement’s rejection of the Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights jeopardises not only the credibility of the unions but also poses legal risks and opens the door to far-right reaction, warns JANE McLENACHAN

Waiting for news after the Senghenydd pit disaster
Eyes Left / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

With the last bricks of the red wall crumbling in the Caerphilly by-election, Starmer and co cannot count on the spectre of Farageism translating into votes for them come the next general election, argues ANDREW MURRAY

FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY: A vanguard class nuclear submarine HMS Vengeance in Gare Loch, after departing HM Naval Base Clyde in Faslane for sea trials, February 2025 ' Pic: Ministry of Defence
Features / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

ARTHUR WEST alerts readers to peace-centred activities in Scotland in November

Roz Foyer
STUC Women’s Conference 2025 / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER

Maccabi fans watch the Europa League opening phase soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Midtjylland in Backa Topola, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

ROGER MCKENZIE argues that it was correct to ban the notorious Israeli side who were likely to cause trouble in Muslim areas of Birmingham, but asks, given the occupation and slaughter in Palestine, why any Israeli team is being hosted anywhere

Lunar House in Croydon, south London which houses the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office
Voices of Scotland / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING

The American embassy in Havana, Cuba, January 14, 2025
Features / 26 October 2025
26 October 2025

Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON