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Dated - 17 Feb 2026
Unite leader Sharon Graham slams Labour as 'devoid of purpose'

Has Starmer lost the trade unions?

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Unite general secretary Sharon Graham
News

Unite leader Sharon Graham slams Labour as ‘devoid of purpose’

Has Starmer lost the trade unions?
19 February 2026
Debating motions at the Unison's women's conference
Trade Unions

Unison women’s conference stands for trans+ rights

Plus health workers fighting for pay
18 February 2026
Prime minister Keir Starmer, chancellor Friedrich Merz,and president Emmanuel Macron at the Munich Security Conference
Labour

Starmer’s Munich betrayal

An arms race means more and more resources will be snatched from working class people. spending
17 February 2026
Trump wants “regime change” from supreme leader of Iran Ali Hosseini Khamenei
Palestine & Middle East

US-Iran nuclear talks illuminate regional rivalries

The talks highlight how the US and Israel want to reshape the region
16 February 2026
Current president Miguel Diaz Canel has done little but impose austerity
International

Food queues and blackouts as US tightens Cuba blockade

Lift the blockade
16 February 2026
The medics are part of the Health for XR group (Photo: @DoctorsXr on X)
Environment

Jury finds climate activist health workers not guilty

The medics say they were responding to a mass-casualty emergency
16 February 2026
Rubio with JD Vance
Alex Callinicos

Alex Callinicos: Marco Rubio’s Munich speech is far from reassuring

Trump secretary of state backs white supremacy
16 February 2026
Last week campaigners escalated their campaign to save the common land
Letters

Letters: Campaign to save Kilvey Hill from a private land grab

Council letting private developers run rampage
16 February 2026
Hundreds of teachers took unofficial action, refusing to cross picket lines in an act of solidarity that was crucial to winning the dispute
In Depth

A lesson in class(room) struggle

NEU national executive members discuss two major strike victories
15 February 2026
Members of the SI Cobas union on strike for Palestine last October (Photo: X/@si_cobasnaz)
Teach Yourself Marxism

What do socialists mean by internationalism?

Capitalist expansion made internationalism both possible and necessary
14 February 2026
The unity march in Bristol
Anti-racism

Anti-racists unite against the far right across Britain

‘We’re making clear that we are proud of being a multicultural, multilingual country’
14 February 2026
On the trans+ liberation march in central London after the Supreme Court ruling (Photo: Guy Smallman)
LGBT+

Resist attack on trans+ rights in workplaces

Resistance is pushing back some attacks
14 February 2026