
Yasmin Gunaratnam explores a tradition of ordinary people holding governments, employers and institutions to account

As wars escalate and military spending booms, Karen Bell surveys alternatives to militarisation and explains the real meaning of security for workers and communities

During World War II, the Communist Party led efforts to secure shelter for ordinary Londoners amid the horrors of the Blitz. Fergus Lamb examines the impact and legacy of its success

Grace Livingstone charts a centuries-old norm of land grabs and bloody intervention and asks: what’s next for Venezuela?

A US government desperate to topple Maduro is deploying military force alongside ‘war on drugs’ rhetoric. We must unite against the latest moves in a longstanding offensive, argues Francisco Dominguez

Labour claims that boosting military spending will produce employment growth. Far from it, argues Richard Norton Taylor, it funnels money to private contractors that should fund public services

Union members have won a long internal struggle for meaningful action against UK arm sales to Israel. Raymond Morell was one of them – and reports from behind the scenes




