When transnational alliances have scarcely been weaker, the way the club was allegedly run offers a bleak vision of a world driven by brute power and wealth, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Labour’s expansion of workers’ rights adds to pressures on the private sector

When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

THE military victories of Ansarallah (the correct term for the “Houthis”) in liberating the west coast of Yemen has drawn the world’s attention.Around 6,000 square kilometres were taken from forces ar...

DELEGATES to the TUC Congress gave a standing ovation to Cuban trade union federation leader Osnay Miguel Colina today and demanded an end to US aggression against the island.Mr Miguel Colina told Con...

TRADE unions are in danger of tying themselves in unnecessary knots over the issue of party funding.It is now beyond clear that action must be taken over political donations following the two huge gif...

ALEXEI SAYLE is the only child of two members of the Communist Party, a fact that is the wellspring of his identity and his humour. I was a “burned child,” he says.So, given the need to rebel against ...

Public control is not public ownership. Andy Burnham must clarify that he backs public ownership of life's essentials.

Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian

A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.

Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The prime minister talks the talk about reversing decades of privatisation and austerity, but we’re yet to see any policies to this end, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

ANDY BURNHAM’S attempt to punt Irish unity “off the table” exposes a lingering imperial reflex towards a democratic reckoning that Britain can no longer postpone.When a British prime minister arrives ...

A person’s wish to die can be shaped by whether they have access to proper palliative care – and too many do not, says Labour MP and transplant surgeon Zubir Ahmed

Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the Universit...

This punishingly hot and dry summer will probably be followed by another wet winter. But it’s nothing compared with what Britain will endure in years to come, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabort...

ON JULY 24 2026 the Telegraph opened its front page and rebranded a black Cambridge professor. Not by his name. Not by his title. Not by his work. The paper called him “Cambridge’s diversity poster bo...

Palestinians are constantly asked to prove their acceptance of Israel's right to exist - yet every day, their own existence is being erased

PETULANT, self-pitying and dishonest: Nigel Farage’s reaction to his victory in the Clacton by-election suggests his gamble has backfired on him.He talks airily of his “resounding victory,” but avoide...

SIMON TISDALL’S latest column in the Guardian is a remarkable document. Its complaint, running through every paragraph, is not that the West has been too aggressive towards China, but that it has not ...

WORKING people are given instructions to ration while the water companies that have failed to fix their leaking infrastructure and pollute our rivers and beaches continue to make massive profits.Half ...

IT IS all very well Andy Burnham pledging to be relentless in tackling small boat crossings but unless he convinces the electorate as a whole that he has a coherent approach to the migratory flows of ...

ANDY BURNHAM’S social care speech gets a lot right.Fixing social care is a worthy mission: the largely privatised sector is a mess, imposing huge costs on vulnerable people and their families, wildly ...

ENGLISH politics has taken a sharp turn towards racism. Political positions once held by the National Front are now regularly broadcast on national television.But many of the leading businessmen and p...

Andy Burnham has called for a historic break with neoliberalism. But what would such a rupture actually consist of? And what are the chances of the new Prime Minister enacting it?

MEDIA attacks on Andy Burnham as a ticket back to the 1970s followed hot on his Labour leadership acceptance speech on Friday.