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Labour’s hollow response to antisemitic violence

The government’s response to the antisemitic attack in Crumpsall reveals a cynical conflation of Jewish identity with Zionism

Review | The Starmer symptom

Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis

Landlords should not be homelessness ministers

Having landlords in the role of homelessness minister is always a mistake

Is this the end of Labour in Wales?

What are the forces behind Labour’s decline in Wales and how can new movements might shape it?

5 sites, 1 day - 6am, 25 July - Birmingham - B'ham Bin Workers Megapicket 2

Birmingham bin strike: show your support against Labour’s austerity

The bin workers are standing up to Labour’s austerity policies – support this crucial strike.

Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: the crime and policing bill

If passed the Crime and Policing Bill will limit human rights and the right to privacy from the state

We are all Palestine Action

rs21’s statement on the proposed proscription of Palestine Action.

A picture of Keir Starmer at the World Economic Forum.

Labour and immigration

Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech

Keir Starmer unveiled a new Immigration White Paper

Labour’s immigration White Paper: a brief explainer 

Here is what the Immigration White Paper means policy-wise

Nigel Farage speaks at a Reform UK event

As Reform grows, we urgently need a left electoral alternative

As two-party politics collapses and Reform UK rise, we need an alternative at the polls.

It’s Time for Real Change in UNISON

Elections for UNISON’s leading body are under way – vote for Time for Real Change

Crowd of thousands in Parliament Square

Huge protests condemn Supreme Court attack on trans people

Protests have shown huge support for trans people this weekend – we can fight and we can win!

Brightly coloured tents around a statue I Albert Square Manchester

The Green Paper: a final rollout of the workfare state

A detailed analysis of the green paper which is all about workfare not welfare.

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Labour – war hawks

Trumpeting the military is a distraction from Labour’s policies to deepen oppression and exploitation.

Disabled people protesting outside Norfolk County Hall

10 ways you can fight the disability benefits cuts

Ten ideas for ways to oppose Labour’s cuts to disabled people’s benefits

Picture of Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, and Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, during a visit to Tilbury Port, Essex, where they toured the site and met with apprentices on November 23, 2023

Is this the end of austerity? Making sense of Britain under Labour

Can Starmer and Reeves deliver lasting change—or will their plans flop under scrutiny?

Building Fortress Britain: Labour’s policies on immigration 

Labour intensifies deportations, workplace raids and migrant exploitation.

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Labour’s budget – no end to increasing inequality

Social services gutted, green transition neglected, public money funnelled to private business.

Rent hikes won’t fix the housing crisis

The new Labour government has made big announcements on housing policy, but there’s very little there to benefit tenants.