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People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest during a protest by people attending a Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, which is housing asylum seekers. Picture date: Sunday September 21, 2025
Editorial: / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
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

People take part in a Stand Up To Racism counter protest during a protest by people attending a Save Our Future & Our Kids Futures protest outside the Cladhan Hotel in Falkirk, which is housing asylum seekers. Picture date: Sunday September 21, 2025
Refugees / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

Home Office has ‘repeatedly cut corners and wasted considerable amounts of taxpayers’ money,’ report warns about the policy

People protest against the participation of the Israeli national team in the 2026 Soccer World Cup qualification match against Italy being played in the evening in Udine, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025
Southern Europe / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

Italian unions are mobilising against rearmament and for wages and investment – but left blunders still leave the ‘post-fascist’ Italian PM looking likely to keep her job, says NICK WRIGHT

People take part in the Stand Up To Racism rally near the TLK Apartments and Hotel in Orpington, August 22, 2025
Anti-Racism / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH

Party leader Nigel Farage (left) and Head of policy Zia Yusuf during a Reform UK press conference at the Royal Horseguards Hotel, London, September 22, 2025
Wales / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reacts to the speech by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the Labour Party conference, September 30, 2025
Politics / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025
Unite the Kingdom
Fascism / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025

The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing left events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY

A police vehicle burns as a right-wing demonstration erupted into violence and chaos as rioters clashed with police, September 20, 2025 in The Hague, Netherlands. Photo: REGIO8 via AP
Western Europe / 21 September 2025
21 September 2025
People demonstrate during the Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in London, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025
Editorial: / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a press conference in Berlin, Germany, September 6, 2025
World / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
People taking part in a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in central London. Picture date: Saturday September 13, 2025
Voices of Scotland / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025

Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba

THOUSANDS of people who joined a far-right protest “went on the rampage” in London over the weekend in an attempted repeat of last summer’s violence, campaigners have said.  Around 100,000 supporters of Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephan Yaxley-Lennon, waving St George’s flags, gathered between Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges on Saturday before marching past Parliament to rally in Whitehall.  At least 24 people were arrested and 26 police officers were injured, including four who were seriously
Politics / 14 September 2025
14 September 2025

‘We need more opposition to the far-right threat,’ Stand Up to Racism says

People taking part in a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in Parliament Square, central London, September 13, 2025
Editorial / 14 September 2025
14 September 2025
People take part in a Stand Up to Racism protest in Epping, Essex, entitled Defend Refugees - Stop the Far Right - No to Fascist Tommy Robinson, following protests outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping, believed to be housing asylum seekers, where there have been a number of demonstrations, after 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 27, 2025
Editorial: / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
Protesters marching in Epping, Essex after a temporary injunction that would have blocked asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel, was overturned at the Court of Appeal, August 31, 2025
Anti-Racism / 13 September 2025
13 September 2025

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers

People take part in the Stand Up To Racism rally near the TLK Apartments and Hotel in Orpington, August 22, 2025
TUC Congress 2025 / 10 September 2025
10 September 2025
People take part in the counter-protest, organised by Stand Up to Racism, to the
Anti-fascism / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025

We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London

Essex
Hotel attack / 31 August 2025
31 August 2025
WORKING-CLASS TRADITION: East London's Kirby estate
Opinion / 31 August 2025
31 August 2025

Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL

Protesters outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping, July 31, 2025
Britain / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025

At least 20 far-right protests planned outside hotels housing asylum seekers over the weekend

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
23 July 2025
Democrat mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during a rally at the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council headquarters in New York, Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Politics / 14 July 2025
14 July 2025

From Labour’s panic over the Corbyn-Sultana formation to Democratic Party grandees distancing themselves from Zohran Mamdani, centrist cliques on both sides of the Atlantic are quick to throw the same old insult, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Sir Oswald Mosley, ex leader of the British Union of Fascists, surrounded by police after speaking in public for the first time since the war at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon, November 1947
History / 11 June 2025
11 June 2025

GUTO DAVIES commemorates the 89th anniversary of the mass clash where thousands of Rhondda locals and anti-fascist activists made sure ‘not even one Welsh sheep would hear the Mosley message’ and rioted against the BUF rally

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London
Features / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets

Nazi soldiers separate Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwi
Fascism / 10 May 2025
10 May 2025

The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN

Barricade in Elmegade in Nørrebro in Copenhagen during the popular strike in 1944
WWII / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025

The Morning Star's Danish sister paper ARBEJDEREN on when the people of Copenhagen triumphed over the occupying forces

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage speaking during a campaign event at Stafford Showground, Stafford, whilst campaigning for this week's local elections, April 30, 2025
Politics / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025

Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT

Protesters outside Liverpool Crown Court where Axel Rudakubana, 18, is charged with three counts of murder, 10 attempted murders and possession of a knife, after a stabbing attack on a Taylor Swift-themed children's holiday club class in Southport, Merseyside on July 29, 2024. Picture date: Monday January 20, 2025
VE Day 2025 / 8 May 2025
8 May 2025

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

Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Antifascism / 7 May 2025
7 May 2025

This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH 

A man stands in front of the logo at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025, after the German national election
Far Right / 2 May 2025
2 May 2025

Decision allows Germany’s spooks to use informants and other tools to spy on the far-right party’s activities nationwide

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at a press conference in Dover in Kent, whilst on the local election campaign trail, April 24, 2025
Features / 28 April 2025
28 April 2025
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow's George Square, in a counter protest to a far-right rally, September 7, 2024
STUC 2025 / 28 April 2025
28 April 2025

As Reform UK threatens to capitalise on public anger, our Establishment politicians simply refuse to acknowledge their role in creating the very alienation that gives succour to Farage, writes CRAIG ANDERSON
 

Counterdemonstrators in Paisley
Britain / 13 April 2025
13 April 2025
Aw That / 12 April 2025
12 April 2025
Like pieces on a chess board, centrist parties lose ground as they accommodate rather than challenge far-right agendas — socialists must play things better, warns MATT KERR
ANGER GROWS: Protesters demonstrate in Dover against migrant
Features / 10 April 2025
10 April 2025
The left must confront both far-right bigotry and the undeniable problems the exploitation of migrant workers by the ruling class creates — but there are few lessons from the global left on how to strike this balance, laments NICK WRIGHT
Clothing showing an image of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
Eyes Left / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
A retiree rallies calling for higher pensions and against au
Features / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper during a visit to Staffordshire
Britain / 30 March 2025
30 March 2025
Campaigns hit out as Cooper tub thumps on migrant family life with public threat to human rights act
FACING THE RIGHT:
Anti-racist protesters
in Walthamstow, 202
Features / 27 March 2025
27 March 2025
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
A far-right protest in Belfast city centre an anti-racism
Britain / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
FAR-RIGHT LEADERS: (L-R) Italy’s Giorgia Melon, Germany’
International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
There’s no room for feminists to be complacent about the growth of extremism and misogyny worldwide, warns HAILEY MAXWELL
Britain / 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
A man stands in front of the logo at the far-right AfD party
Features / 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
In the recent federal elections the far-right AfD was able to reach sections of the working class on issues over which the left is divided and unable to articulate a coherent position, a situation that is replicated in a number of other European countries, argues NICK WRIGHT
Activists from Stand Up To Racism Scotland gather in Glasgow
Britain / 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Friedrich Merz (centre) leader of the Christian Democratic U
World / 24 February 2025
24 February 2025
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-rigt Alternative for Germ
Editorial: / 24 February 2025
24 February 2025
Merseyside Fire & Rescue service help repair a broken window
Britain / 19 February 2025
19 February 2025
Supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) carrying cut outs
World / 9 February 2025
9 February 2025
Fascist goons throw objects towards police officer at the Ho
Eyes Left / 5 February 2025
5 February 2025
ANDREW MURRAY reviews studies on the motivations of last August's rioters and dwindling support for 'democracy' in its modern Western incarnation
Stand Up to Racism marches in London
Britain / 2 February 2025
2 February 2025
Thousands take to streets to protest against far right
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Sta
Features / 1 February 2025
1 February 2025
Today’s far-right demo called by ‘Tommy Robinson’ from prison to ‘free the political prisoners’ is a dark sign of today’s politics. We need a class-based fightback now, argues TONY CONWAY
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
Campaigners express concerns about the of safety black and minority ethnic communities in London ahead of far-right march