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From the Editor: Thank you to our readers and supporters

Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025

Our readership continues to grow but none of this would’ve been possible without readers and donors. We need your support now more than ever, with the rise of the right, as progressives we must continue to fight back against regressive policies and ideas.

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23 December, 2025

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The Tories are trying to remove accountability for war crimes. What will Labour do?

Symon Hill
23 September, 2020

The Overseas Operations Bill will make the armed forces even more immune from prosecution – a dangerous move.

Brexit talks: Boris Johnson is fighting for the right to ‘be more French’

Josiah Mortimer
23 September, 2020

The PM is keen to hand out millions to favoured tech firms. What would Margaret Thatcher say?

Left-wing activists plan national Day of Action against Tories’ handling of the Covid crisis

Josiah Mortimer
22 September, 2020

Organisers insist the protests will be ‘Covid safe’ and kept under review.

The Bank of England Governor just backed up the Left’s furlough calls

Josiah Mortimer
22 September, 2020

Ministers must do everything they can to support jobs, says Andrew Bailey, as the income support scheme comes to an abrupt end.

From Russia with Lubov? Tory party funding questions dodge the front pages

Josiah Mortimer
22 September, 2020

The Conservatives are under fire over alleged Russian interference – but it’s off the agenda today…

7 highlights from Keir Starmer’s Labour Connected speech

Josiah Mortimer
22 September, 2020

The Labour leader was deliberately unsubtle in distancing himself from the Corbyn years

Workers’ rights must not be compromised by any trade deal

Tony Burke Andrew Dettmer
21 September, 2020

British, New Zealander and Australian trade union leaders come together to argue that workers rights must be essential to any trade deal.

Labour is now the party of stability – is that a winning strategy?

Emma Burnell
21 September, 2020

Starmer’s stabilty pitch has found favour with voters. But he will eventually havr to set out his policy stall.

Labour needs new thinking when it comes to international security

Kate Hudson
21 September, 2020

The party must update its policies on global threats, writes Kate Hudson.

Thousands of home carers could claim payouts after courtroom win

Joe Lo
18 September, 2020

Their bosses weren’t paying them for travelling between clients’ homes.

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