Calls to suspend the FIFA World Cup qualifier between Italy and Israel, scheduled for 14 October in Udine, northwest Italy, have been remarkably intense and widespread. A public petition quickly ...

TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to ...

Although two party politics is over in the UK, with voters flipping between more parties more frequently, our ballot box behaviour remains stubbornly binary. Voters choose between one loose cluster of ...

Sipping my first post-lockdown pint with comrade Colum Leith in a sunny Bristol beer garden, we discussed what we had read, watched and listened to over previous months. Most of it spoke to our ...

Every time ‘ceasefire efforts’ or ‘truce negotiations’ are announced, the same scene returns to the minds of Gaza’s residents: breaking news alerts; tense scrolling through social media, and ...

As the world’s major powers scramble to secure access to so-called ‘critical minerals’, British mining companies sense an opportunity. Giants such as Anglo American are presenting themselves as ...

On 17 June 2025, soldiers in Israeli tanks opened fire on a queue of Palestinians in Gaza. Having risen early to collect limited flour supplies, they were instead met with a rain of bullets. At least ...

The Soviet Union, in the 74 years of its existence in one form or another, was a society that was all about building. The Soviets claimed in the 1970s to have ‘built’ socialism, and while they never ...

The left in the UK has a fatal attraction to shortcuts. In 1906 the left-wing Independent Labour Party (ILP) joined the Labour Representation Committee, the trade union dominated committee that ...

In 1994, inspired by 500 years of anti-colonial struggle, the rebel peasant Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) declared war ‘on neoliberalism, for humanity’ via an armed uprising. The ...

The first volume of Tariq Ali’s autobiography, Street Fighting Years (1987), focused on his youth. This latest volume follows on from 1979, taking the reader into his eighties, and includes a ...

Journalism has a diversity problem. That’s not a new revelation. According to a 2023 survey by the Canadian Association of Journalists, 76 per cent of the country’s newsrooms have no visible minority ...