UNIVERSITIES are in an “existential moment” having announced more than 15,000 job cuts in the past year, University and College Union (UCU) warned today.

Roger McKenzie is the international editor of the UK-based Morning Star, the only English-language socialist daily newspaper in the world. He joins us from Oxford to discuss the politics of a growing ...

In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’ The terrorism case against the Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has been thrown out following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought. The 27-year-old, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was accused of displaying a flag in support of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, north London, last November. Continue reading...

BUILDING on last week’s Bloquons Tout movement, a national protest against Emmanuel Macron’s austerity budget, which drew supporters from both left and right, the combined might of the French unions l...

THE “90 per cent of Nicaraguans feel spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent sur...

THE tectonic plates of the left are shifting with an election for a Labour deputy leader. In 2025, no left candidate has made the ballot, and the two candidates are Lucy Powell — recently sacked by Ke...

AFTER days of protest last week, we finally saw the last of Donald Trump as he flew off, back to the strife-ridden and increasingly authoritarian US of A. Unfortunately, he has left a particularly nas...

THE so-called Unite the Kingdom far-right demonstration earlier this month was the largest such mobilisation in this country in its history, with as many as 150,000 participants chanting anti-Muslim, ...

From September 17 to 19, the 12th Xiangshan Forum took place in Beijing. The security conference in China’s capital brought together 1,800 politicians, diplomats and scholars from over 100 countries. ...

THE eagerly anticipated Employment Rights Bill, the pinnacle of Keir Starmer’s Labour government, is due to receive royal assent later in the year.The headlines all sound fantastic — day one rights, e...

EIGHTY years ago, in the aftermath of the devastating world wars, nations united to create the United Nations, opening a new chapter in global governance.Since then, the UN has reached key milestones ...