As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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We must make the positive case for immigration
We need to openly reject the Tories’ politics of fear over migration, as well as laying the blame for low wages and poor services with the real culprits — the greedy rich, writes JEREMY CORBYN MP
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
GULCIN OZDEMIR’S parents arrived in Islington in the 1990s. Like thousands of other Kurdish people, they had fled conflict and persecution in Turkey.
Risking their lives to travel across Europe, they came to Britain in the hope of securing a happier and safer life. But their struggle for sanctuary was far from over.
Not long after their arrival, immigration officials threatened to send them back home — a home defined by statelessness and oppression.
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CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
CARLOS MARTINEZ condemns Europe’s failure to develop genuine autonomy from US hegemony, as leaders like Starmer and Macron cling to a declining imperial order rather than building good relations with the emerging powers
