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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Though cowards flinch
We have to rise above the backstabbing and campaign like never before to avoid Corbyn and McDonnell becoming ‘the best government team we never had,’ writes JOHN GREEN
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
MARX famously declared that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce — but this is by no means a fixed rule. History can and does also repeat itself a second time around as tragedy.
In 1980 Michael Foot had been elected as leader of the Labour Party, representing a decisive shift to the left.
A year later, in 1981, Tony Benn challenged Denis Healey for the deputy leadership and was only narrowly defeated.
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BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
TONY CONWAY assesses the lessons of the 1930s and looks at what is similar, and what is different, about the rise of the far right today
