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Funding the BBC World Service is a strategic necessity
Panny Antoniou assesses the challenges facing this vital instrument of soft power
The BBC World Service is often described as one of Britain’s greatest soft-power...
Banners with white pigeons do not intercept missiles
In giving a view from the Ukrainian labour movement, Yuliya Yurchenko asks what peace is.
On the eve of the full-scale Russian invasion, a political...
Labour’s Factionalism Has to End
Pablo John lays out Mainstream's demands following the Epstein-Mandelson-McSweeney scandals
So Morgan McSweeney has gone. Peter Mandelson is being stripped of his peerage. Two men,...
Learning from the Manifesto di Ventotene
In the face of Trumpism Andrea Pisauro urges us to revisit the antifascist roots of European integration
On December 2, 1804, in the Notre-Dame Cathedral...
Changing Labour to win
In the wake of Starmer’s “mistake” over Mandelson’s appointment, the malign influence of Labour Together and the heavy byelection defeat Mike Davis and Frank...
Workers spearhead fight against Putin
Sacha Ismail reports that Westminster rally underscores labour movement support for Ukraine
We were late starting, thanks to the queues to get through security at...
Greens move Left
Victor Anderson asks: Can the Green Party move left without leaving the environment behind?
The Green Party has made dramatic advances in the opinion polls....
Isolating Israel and Trump on Iran
An ‘off-ramp’ or a forever war? Mark Seddon on Trump’s dilemma as isolation beckons and world economy plunges
Raging against the dying of the light,...
Growing resistance in Trump’s USA
Paul Garver reports on the grassroots movements organising anti-ICE actions and the work of the Democratic Socialists of America in the wake of Mamdani's...
Left containment morphs into major crisis for Labour Right
Defeating Labour’s Left wing liberated the Right to appease the global elite. Don Flynn argues this has led to a current crisis of credibility that...
The End of the Rules Based World Order?
Duncan Bowie sees no future for the United Nations
The United Nations is now finished just as the League of Nations died in the late...
Saving London’s Brick Lane
Puru Miah asks is Labour serious about tackling inequality and the housing crisis?
On the afternoon of Friday, 31 October 2025, at the Town Hall...