As Reform surges and we enter a ‘proto-fascist’ moment, it is vital that we reject both complacency and factionalism, and work out how to build a powerful leftist counter-movement — in parliament and ...

On the same day as Labour’s crushing defeat in the Caerphilly by-election, which ended  a Labour reign of 107 years in that seat, a local council by-election took place In Colchester.  Br…

Jack Sheard suggests how practitioners might respond to an arcane piece of legislation popular with landlords who are trying to intimidate tenants.

An update from Adalah, an independent human rights organization and legal centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Over the past 24 hours, Adalah attorneys met with 331 participants of the Global…

Conference comes to life as delegates vote to sanction Israel and demand a wealth tax. In a victory for the tireless campaigning mounted by solidarity activists, Labour’s Annual Conference has vote…

On the eve of Labour’s Conference, Mike Phipps reviews The Starmer Symptom, edited by Mark Perryman, published by Pluto. What does Keir Starmer represent? Does his wing of the Labour Party stand fo…

By Dashty Jamal On Saturday September 13th, a counter-demonstration was organized in London by Stand Up To Racism against the far-right Tommy Robinson demonstration, in which we participated to reject the hatred and bigotry spread by Tommy Robinson and the far-right. The far-right demonstration, which drew nearly 110,000 participants, was one of the largest far-right gatherings against refugees in Britain in recent years.

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In the Labour Conference 2025 Labour Left Podcast edition, Bryn Griffiths speaks to the Labour left leader John McDonnell of the Socialist Campaign Group. The in-depth interview with John explores …

Charlie Winstanley’s book Bricking It: The UK Housing Crisis and the Failure of Policy is published today, Here the author introduces some its main themes. The UKs housing crisis is perhaps the single largest failure of domestic policy in decades, and an increasing source of political malaise for any party in government. The average price of a house relative to earnings in the UK is higher than at almost any other time in the last 150 years.

Yesterday Paul Ovenden resigned as Keir Starmer’s Director of Political Strategy after details emerged about sexually explicit messages he sent to colleagues about Diane Abbott MP in 2017. The reaction to this story exposes something rotten about the British media-political system, argues Angus Satow. The British media's response to Ovenden's resignation has been in equal parts shocking and disgraceful. It is a useful microcosm of everything wrong with political journalism in this country, from a deeply flawed framework to outright chauvinism.

The last fortnight has seen a complete transformation of the situation in the Labour Party. If a week is a long time in politics, for Keir Starmer the period since he promised a Government reset that would bring “delivery, delivery, delivery” must seems like an eternity. True, the departure of Deputy Leader Angela Rayner will not have been much of a blow to Starmer.

MPs have the power to open the debate, and take the Labour Party back to its guiding values. I hope they will use it.

Like a number of other women from working class backgrounds, Angela Rayner was the victim of a right wing press witch-hunt. She also broke the Ministerial Code, by failing to seek the appropriate s…