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Dated - 11 Aug 2026
Food prices are soaring amid war and climate breakdown

Prices are at a three year high as Britain enters its fifth heatwave

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Extreme weather is having a disastrous effect on food production (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
Environment

Food prices are soaring amid war and climate breakdown

Prices are at a three year high as Britain enters its fifth heatwave
13 August 2026
Student protests in India earlier this year (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
The SW View

Revolt spreads in India and Pakistan

Plus: Our take on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor still being granted a royal funeral
12 August 2026
An Arriva bus in north London (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Trade Unions

‘We are in a mobile greenhouse’ say bus drivers striking over heat

Bus drivers in north London are demanding better air conditioning
11 August 2026
ICR strikers on the picket line on Monday
News

Help cancer researchers win—and spread the strikes

The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) workers began an indefinite strike on 10 August.
11 August 2026
Labour

Teachers and parents slam Labour plan for primaries to monitor children for ‘joblessness risk’

Another Blairite gimmick
10 August 2026
Activists are out campaigning ahead of the Clacton by-election against far right party Reform UK's candidate, Nigel Farage.
Anti-racism

Anti-racists take on Farage ahead of Clacton by-election

Around 20 people leafleted in the town last Saturday
10 August 2026
The new blockbuster cuts major parts of the original poem
Reviews & Culture

Nolan’s Odyssey fails to grasp today’s crises or the poem’s enduring power

A review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
09 August 2026
The Bureij refugee camp in 2018 (Photo: WikipediaCommons)
News

Palestinians say ‘Gaza is a prison’ as Israel continues bombings

'Everyday there are more air strikes'
09 August 2026
Anti-racism

Race and class in a seaside town

Low paid workers striking in Great Yarmouth
08 August 2026
News

Army of abuse—teenage girls raped and treated like ‘pieces of meat’

Violence and abuse is baked into how the army operates
08 August 2026
Teach Yourself Marxism

What do socialists mean by ‘communism’?

Socialism is a broad term, but communism is something different
07 August 2026
Anti-racism

The racist witch-hunt of Jason Arday

Former Cambridge professor found dead
07 August 2026