“A lot of people are going to understand,” Chamel Abdulkarim reportedly said just moments after burning down the 1.2 million square foot warehouse where he worked. He wasn’t wrong. His sentiment resonates deeply among workers far and wide.

Building on their new radical, anti-establishment image, Polanski’s Green Party is now consciously presenting itself as the party of the working class, and is reaching out to the organised labour movement. What does this reveal to us?

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has become something of a sensation for his opposition to the Iran war. Some have claimed Britain needs their own Sánchez, but is he really a model for fighting imperialism and capitalism?

In these troubled times, spare a thought for poor old Keir Starmer. If the Mandelson affair doesn’t finish him off, the local elections might. But whoever sits in Number 10 – whether it be Burnham, Farage, or Polanski – will face the same pressures and problems.

Whilst hundreds of far-right thugs marched through the streets of Manchester last Saturday, the priority of the Greater Manchester Police was to pepper-spray, manhandle, and assault anti-racist youth and workers. Read our on-the-ground report.

As each day goes by, the enormity of the loss of Donald Trump’s war on Iran is being revealed. Trump’s presidency is unravelling and he is left with no good options. More profoundly, this is a key moment in the relative decline of US imperialism itself.