Features

Fighting for a future: How global north policies fuel Africa’s youth uprisings 

Youth-led protest movements are challenging the subservience of African governments to the neocolonial policy agenda.  Michael Nelson Byaruhanga looks into the politics of the challenge...

Free fares makes sense

Simon Pirani shares the  Fare Free London report which warns high fares do damage High fares on public transport, especially on the tube and trains,...

Srebrenica and unfinished business

Sheila Osmanovic on genocide, xenophobia and the dangerous lesson of forgetting Thirty years after Srebrenica, the word “unfinished” still fits. The genocide in Bosnia of...

Stop scapegoating asylum seekers

Sabia Kamali says the real threat isn’t migrants- its misplaced fear and far right racists When sexual crimes hit headlines, migrants are often cast as...

Under the Trump boot

Glyn Ford says the era of Unequal Treaties is back Almost paralleling the reign of Victoria (1837-1901) was China’s Era of Unequal Treaties, which saw the...

Labour must maximise pressure on Israel and Trump

Andy Gregg finds the Gaza "peace" plan vague, with no mention of the West Bank and subject to Trump’s whims. Now that the hostages have...

Untimely Atlanticism

US AI data centres drain power and offer little for UK jobs while in Europe opportunities call says Dave Levy One of the few substantial...

Ukraine’s Fight is Our Fight

While Trump vacillates Julie Ward argues Labour and European states must step up aid and sanctions against Putin’s Russia Let's be absolutely clear - Vladimir...

Labour losing moral compass  

Don Flynn says Home Secretary Mahmood’s  “moral mission” is intent on overturning the rights of migrants     Shabana Mahmood has set out a claim to a “moral mission” to mend divisions over...

Labour’s Budget Choice

Taxing the rich, closing loopholes and ending privatisation can reduce child poverty, inequality and boost investment argues Prem Sikka Sustained economic growth has been the...

Taxing the rich

Ignacia Punto asks to tax or not to tax the rich? Will Labour meet the challenge in the Autumn Budget It has now been over...

England for the English?

John Denham examines the flag phenomenon, why Labour is getting its response to England dangerously wrong and why it should develop a programme of...