IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
No room for complacency over the far right
After years of humiliating defeats, Britain’s extreme right is rebuilding – using Covid and social despair in order to pose as ‘champions’ of forgotten communities, says WEYMAN BENNETT of Stand Up to Racism
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
More expensive by weight than gold, saffron is surprisingly simple to grow. MAT COWARD explains
The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
TOMMY ROBINSON — ex-Nazi British National Party (BNP) member and former leader of the fascist English Defence League (EDL) — and 700-800 of his supporters gathered in the centre of Telford in Shropshire last Saturday.
It was a gathering whose core was made up of fascists and organised racists — some even giving the Hitler salute — that claimed to be standing up for the forgotten white working-class people of the town.
Patriotic Alternative had a banner at the event, as did the hardcore far-right football hooligans of the Chelsea Headhunters. Former members of the proscribed National Action group were also at the Robinson rally.
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May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
SYMON HILL looks at Tommy Robinson’s bid to use Christmas to spread division and hate — and reminds us that’s the opposite of Jesus’s message
