The last Labour manifesto pledged to pass the Hillsborough Law, ensuring justice for the Liverpool fans who died in the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy, but now the government is considering a watered down replacement. We can't let that happen.
In recent years the BBC has come to nurture right-wing populism and sideline the Left. But with just a little imagination and effort it could easily reclaim its radical democratic roots.
Far from being a threat to the British people, activists fighting for the Palestinian cause are in fact reflective of public opinion and helping to close the gap between international law and Britain’s support for Israeli oppression.
Reform MP Rupert Lowe has criticised the ‘incitement to violence’ at Glastonbury days after suggesting that Palestine Action activists should ‘expect to be shot’. Is this Musk-endorsed maverick the future of Reform — or a new hard-right Tory party?
The government’s willingness to demonise migrant workers is a sign of its increasing moral degradation. Meanwhile, like their New Labour role models, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting are supremely relaxed about multinational involvement in the NHS.
As the government slashes social security provision for the vulnerable, Rachel Reeves wants to relax her clampdown on ‘non-dom’ loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Nothing better illustrates how Labour has abandoned ordinary people to become ‘capital’s B-team’.
In the election to be New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani is waging war on the city’s establishment and capturing the public’s imagination in the process. Will it be enough to succeed?
As the government designates Palestine Action a 'terrorist' group, Jeremy Corbyn argues that MPs wouldn’t be here without the right to protest – and that this authoritarian crackdown must end now.
British publishing has been slow to document black British stories outside of the capital. A new book, taking a road trip around the UK during the Thatcher years, sets the record straight.
The government’s move to ban Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act is due to their effectiveness in disrupting genocide — and erodes the basis for dissent that all democratic societies need.
While news headlines are increasingly dominated by the nuclear face-off between Israel, Iran, and the US, life remains hellish for displaced families clinging on to the edge of the Gaza City shoreline. Who will speak for them?
After fifty years of neoliberalism, smaller British cities have some of the worst life prospects in Western Europe. Does a case study of one of them offer any clues about how to challenge uneven development and reverse postindustrial decline?