Rachel Reeves shared a video of herself holding the red Budget box outside 11 Downing Street, and captioned it, on X: “Today is the first time in our country’s history that a budget will be delivered ...

In early 2017, after Donald Trump first took office, there were big demonstrations across the USA against his “Muslim ban” on entry to the USA from seven countries. At the time I asked a US socialist ...

A demographic dip (fewer children) currently means fewer pupils in primary schools. The dip, combined with general underfunding and funding being calculated per pupil without reference to other ...

Leading Communist Party of Britain member Andrew Murray has a weekly column, Eyes Left, in the Morning Star. His column on 30 October was headed “What should the British left make of the US ...

With most of the results in it looks like Trump has retaken the US Presidency. Although less likely than if he had lost, Trump may call people on to the streets to demonstrate for him. Other immediate ...

The latest report from the solidarity delegation to Lviv, Ukraine. On Friday afternoon, we met Sotsіalniy Rukh (SR; The Social Movement), which describes itself as a new left party created by the ...

This is the second of our blog posts reporting from the solidarity delegation to Lviv in Ukraine. On Thursday afternoon, we visited a secondary school, Lyceum no.83. We were shown around the school by ...

This morning, we visited the rather splendid Lviv office of the Trade Union of Education and Science Workers of Ukraine.The office is in the House of Scientists, a stunning neo-baroque building that ...

This week, a delegation of UK educators and union activists is visiting Ukraine in solidarity with educators in a country at war. Reports will be posted on this blog. This morning, we visited a ...

On Sunday 27 October, the liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz organised a conference on the ongoing Gaza war at JW3, a Jewish cultural and community centre in northwest London. The conference was ...

On Thursday, 24 October, Magdalena Biejat, former co-leader of the left-wing Razem party in Poland, announced on Instagram: “We are leaving Razem today… You can guess it was a difficult and painful ...