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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Keir Starmer promises to unite the party and appear prime ministerial while sticking by Labour’s left-wing policies. But if elected, he would be forced to choose between these priorities – and it’s clear which one would lose out.
The recent deal to re-establish Northern Ireland’s Assembly may have broken a deadlock but it doesn’t resolve any of the fundamental contradictions at the heart of the peace process – and is likely to lead to another wave of punishing austerity.
The mooted merger of the Department for International Development with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office would be the latest Tory scheme to use the aid budget to fill the pockets of corporations.
Glasgow councillor Matt Kerr explains why he’s running for deputy leader of Scottish Labour – to empower a new generation in the party’s grassroots and ensure that Labour fights for real democracy, even when it’s a challenge.
In 1972, ten thousand kids walked out of school in Britain to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.
Socialist author Richard Seymour discusses his origins on the Left, his latest book and the role of social media in shaping our political environment.
Labour had bold housing policies in the general election – but it failed to build a narrative that got them across. Now, the challenge is to engage with the movements fighting the housing crisis at the grassroots.
Last month, Herminio Martínez, one of the last child refugees to the UK from the Spanish Civil War, passed away. Here he describes the largest arrival of child refugees ever to Britain – the 4,000 who sought refuge after the Nazi bombing campaign in Guernica.
In 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as Labour’s first MP of colour. He was a fighter against colonialism and war – and for an international socialism that could unite the world’s working-class.
On Sunday, gangs associated with India’s ruling BJP organised a violent assault on left-wing students in Jawaharlal Nehru University. The resulting outrage is putting the extreme right on the back foot.
Under the Tories, Britain’s approach to international aid and development has become wedded to market ideology – encouraging some of the world’s poorest countries to pursue waves of privatisation.
Recent weeks have seen French unions explode into life with the largest strike in decades against Macron’s pension reforms – now the question is whether they can build a movement to defeat him altogether.
Today Spain elected its first left-wing coalition since the civil war in the 1930s. Already, it is under siege from the country’s elite – but if it succeeds, it can improve the lives of millions.
Party chair Ian Lavery on why he’s backing Rebecca Long-Bailey to combine socialist policies with the long-term workplace, community and party organising necessary to rebuild Labour’s roots.
Labour needs a socialist leader who can work with our movement, rebuild our communities and fight for the policies we believe in – that’s why I’m standing, says Rebecca Long-Bailey.
It’s not enough for Labour leadership candidates to just say they’ll support radical policies. They need to prove they’ll fight for them – against big business, the political establishment and the billionaire-owned press.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Italy’s Serie A led the football world. But as financial interests asset-strip once-great clubs and racist abuse on the terraces dominates the headlines, Italian football no longer looks like such a “beautiful game.”
Unprecedented environmental disaster, an establishment in denial and working people paying the price – Australia’s wildfires are a taste of the politics of climate change in the decades to come.
During the Second World War, Britain’s soldiers insisted that they were fighting for more than a return to the status quo – and the popular educational programmes they established helped to pave the way for Labour’s victory in 1945.
The march to war with Iran has begun, with the British government playing Trump’s tune – it’s time for all those opposed to another slaughter in the Middle East to organise a mass anti-war movement.