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Climate activists from Greenpeace and Uplift during a demonstration outside the Scottish Court of Session, Edinburgh, on the first day of the Rosebank and Jackdaw judicial review hearing. Picture date: Tuesday November 12, 2024
Climate Crisis / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Eleanor Roosevelt holding poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in English), Lake Success, New York, November 1949
Britain / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025
Chancellor of Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to the Sipsmith Distillery in Chiswick West London, to highlight how the India Free Trade Agreement is supporting British Business. Picture date: Thursday October 9, 2025
Labour Party / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025
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

Maccabi Tel Aviv's fans chant slogans at the end of the Europa League soccer match between PAOK and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Toumpa stadium, in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 24, 2025
Men’s Football / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025

Politicians and campaigners back police's plans to ban Israeli fans attending Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv match

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping of China, at the Sheraton Hotel, as he attends the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 18, 2024
Britain / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025
Then prime minister David Cameron (left) welcomes then newly-elected Newark MP Robert Jenrick to the Houses of Parliament in London, June 11, 2014
Politics / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025

SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party

A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff
Wales / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025
From left to right: La France Insoumise deputy leader Nathalie Oziol, Die Linke general secretary Janis Ehling, Workers' Party of Belgium general secretary Peter Mertens, British-Palestinian activist Leanne Mohamad, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
The World Transformed Festival 2025 / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana discuss the formation of a new leftwing party 

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers her keynote speech to the Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex, October 8, 2025
The Tories / 8 October 2025
8 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
Andrew RT Davies, Leader of the Welsh Conservatives speaking while on the general election campaign trail, June 21, 2024
Wales / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) shakes hands with former Conservative MP Danny Kruger, who has defected to Reform UK, during a press conference in Westminster, central London, September 15, 2025
Politicians / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Newly appointed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood leaves 10 Downing Street, London, following Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Cabinet reshuffle after the resignation of Angela Rayner. Picture date: Friday September 5, 2025
Labour Party / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025
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Book Review / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025

MARJORIE MAYO is moved by the clarity with which the FBU call out the true causes of this preventable tragedy

People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London. Picture date: Saturday June 7, 2025
TUC Congress 2025 / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025

In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE

Joanne Thomas campaigning for safe shopwork
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 / 12 July 2025
12 July 2025

Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street

Re your message in #nujchapel:  If we website looks like shit, no-one is going to take us seriously, or be inclined to subscribe - that's why I think we have to prioritise the way it looks, especially when the site (editorial-wise) is largely working.  When it comes to the issues you mentioned to me the other day (word count, curly quotes, bylines), there are quick and easy work arounds for them (copy and paste text into BBedit, Word, Pages, wordcount.com, etc. Leave curly quotes, bylines, etc to the web de
Democracy / 2 July 2025
2 July 2025

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

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025
War & Austerity / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025

LIZ PAYNE condemns how Labour backs war in Gaza and Ukraine, and massive funding for Trident’s nuclear bombs, when billions are needed just to restore public services

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech about the European Convention on Human Rights at the Royal United Services Institute in central London, June 6, 2025
The Tories / 13 June 2025
13 June 2025

Leaving the ECHR will not reduce illegal immigration as the far right claim, but it will reduce our rights, liberties and restrictions on the wealthy’s control of government, explains ANSELM ELDERGILL
 

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, June 1, 2025
Britain / 1 June 2025
1 June 2025
ouse of Commons Handout photo issued by the House of Commons of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, May 21, 2025
Eyes Left / 28 May 2025
28 May 2025

The Tories’ trouble is rooted in the British capitalist Establishment now being more disoriented and uncertain of its social mission than before, argues ANDREW MURRAY

SOBERING FIGURES: Vote counting for the Runcorn and Helsby by-election on May 1 2025
Opinion / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative

Channel Migrants
Features / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025

Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES

People take part in a protest organised by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) opposite Downing Street, London, over the proposed closure of railway station ticket offices, August 31, 2023
Features / 3 May 2025
3 May 2025

This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY

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Features / 3 May 2025
3 May 2025

DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal

Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) on Pi
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025

Educators must fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Tax rich instead of cutting benefits, PM told
(L to R) Nicholas Garland in The Telegraph; Frank Eccles Bro
Features / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Britain / 4 February 2025
4 February 2025
Activists from Fossil Free London and Green New Deal Rising
Features / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
BERNIE EVANS despairs of a government that is asking the crooks sucking Britain dry how to get the economy back on track
HEAVY HANDED: (Above) Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Jo
Eyes Left / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
Screen grab of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper giving a stateme
Britain / 16 January 2025
16 January 2025
Tulip Siddiq MP speaking at an Association of Jewish Refugee
Britain / 15 January 2025
15 January 2025
Tulip Siddiq outside 10 Downing Street, central London, May
Britain / 12 January 2025
12 January 2025
AN IMPERATIVE CALL: Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers pro
Features / 11 January 2025
11 January 2025
PROFESSOR ANSELM ELDERGILL suggests ways in which the government can boost legal aid and support
ENABLERS OF FASCISM: German police break up a protest outsid
Features / 11 January 2025
11 January 2025
KEVIN OVENDEN cautions against a simplistic ridiculing of Trump, Musk or Farage as any such laughter might turn out to be at our expense
The door to number 11 Downing Street, London, the official r
Britain / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederati
Features / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
Labour’s ex-banker Chancellor plans deregulation while City profits soar and customers suffer — between money laundering scandals and the exploitation of Covid loans, it’s clearly time to end this madness, says BERNIE EVANS
The door of 10 Downing Street, London, October 20, 2022
Britain / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025