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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The Greens and the wider left
The Green Party saw an impressive resurgence at the latest local election polls in England – but the future direction the party takes, whether to the left or the right, remains to be seen, says NICK WRIGHT
Carla Denyer, co-leader of the Green Party, (left) and Kat Belfield, 33, gastroenterology registrar and BMA rep, (second right) join striking NHS junior doctors on the picket line outside Bristol Royal Infirmary, April 11, 2023
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
LABOUR won the English local elections. Wins were mainly in urban settings and in places where backsliding over Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to honour the referendum result had weakened the Labour vote.
The Tory media management strategy fell apart when the 1,000-seat reduction they trailed — in the expectation that their losses might be less — itself proved to be too low. For the first time this century Labour is now the largest party in local government.
Now the interesting bit.
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Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT
VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative