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John McDonnell speaking at PCS conference. Photo: Andy Aitchison

PCS Conference 2026 / 21 May 2026

McDonnell mocks Streeting's Road to Damascus moment at PCS conference

21 May 2026

Displaced Palestinians, carrying their belongings move between southern and northern Gaza along a beach road, in the outskirts of Gaza City, on March 21, 2025

RMT Conference 2025 / 23 June 2025

McDonnell praises workers in Europe for refusing to load ships with weapons bound for Israel

23 June 2025

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to workers during a visit to Glass Futures in St Helens, Merseyside, May 29, 2025

Politics / 29 May 2025

Labour could be lost for good, McDonnell warns as Starmer takes aim at Reform

29 May 2025

John McDonnell. Photo: Andy Aitchison/PCS

PCS Conference 2025 / 22 May 2025

McDonnell calls for second employment rights Bill if current legislation falls short

22 May 2025

Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal raises his

Britain / 21 February 2025

‘If they can prosecute us, no protest is safe’

21 February 2025

Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal denies breaching anti-protest laws

Zarah Sultana MP speaks during a strike rally in Trafalgar S

Britain / 5 February 2025

‘Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence’

5 February 2025

Labour continues suspension of Apsana Begum, Zarah Sultana and John McDonnell

Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, (centre) on a TSSA pic

Britain / 23 January 2025

Labour likely to try to split rebel MPs, Westminster sources say

23 January 2025

A ‘Stop Heathrow Expansion’ sign on a lamppost on Hollow

Britain / 21 January 2025

Heathrow expansion could spark largest single environmental campaign in British history, MP warns

21 January 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederati

Britain / 14 January 2025

Ministers warned to stop the rush to ‘political suicide’

14 January 2025

John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington speaks at

Britain / 13 December 2024

MPs back disability activist calls for public inquiry into DWP deaths

13 December 2024

Palestinian activist Khairi Hanoon walks with the Palestinia

Britain / 3 September 2024

Left MPs demand all military sales to Israel must be banned

3 September 2024

Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s announcement today that it will only block 30 of its 350 arms export licences did not go far enough, the MPs says

PCS conference 2024 / 21 May 2024

Unions must ‘tickle’ Labour into state borrowing within first year of government, McDonnell says

21 May 2024

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer gives a speech at the Natio

Britain / 4 January 2024

Project Hopeless: Starmer ducks change challenge

4 January 2024

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in conversa

Britain / 8 November 2023

Sunak mustn't ‘interfere’ with Met's decision on pro-Palestinian march, McDonnell says

8 November 2023

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer addresses the Labour Pa

Labour Party Conference 2023 / 8 October 2023

McDonnell vows to fight Sir Keir's bid to scrap local equality officer positions

8 October 2023

John McDonnell praises retiring PCS general secretary Mark S

Britain / 25 May 2023

John McDonnell praises Mark Serwotka as ‘one of the most significant labour movement figures in history’

25 May 2023

Retiring PCS leader lauded for inspiring ‘a radical redirection of the labour movement’

Thousands march through central London to protest against NH

Britain / 12 March 2023

Thousands stand in solidarity with striking NHS workers and demand end to creeping privatisation

12 March 2023

Features / 6 December 2022

The solution is resistance

6 December 2022

Now is the time to be joining demonstrations, occupations and the picket lines writes JOHN MCDONNELL MP

Labour leader Keir Starmer

Britain / 28 July 2022

‘An attack on solidarity’

28 July 2022

Trade unions furious with Sir Keir for sacking shadow transport secretary as McDonnell backs growing calls for a general strike

FBU general secretary Matt Wrack (left) and FBU President Ia

FBU Conference 2022 / 12 May 2022

Labour's John McDonnell among first recipients of union's Solidarity medal

12 May 2022

Former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Britain / 2 March 2022

McDonnell drops out from speaking at anti-war rally after threats he will lose the party whip

2 March 2022

Supporters watch on a screen, Brazilian President Jair Bolso

Britain / 5 December 2021

Pandemic, inequality and climate change are three crises that call for the end of capitalism, John McDonnell tells Adelante conference

5 December 2021

Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a dem

Britain / 23 May 2021

Sir Keir must restore Labour whip to Corbyn, former shadow chancellor McDonnell

23 May 2021

Ian Gibson, who will be fondly remembered

Features / 11 April 2021

Ian Gibson – a true socialist MP who was devoted to bettering the lives of others

11 April 2021

JEREMY CORBYN, JOHN McDONNELL, ALAN SIMPSON and CLIVE LEWIS pay tribute to one of Labour’s finest

Britain / 19 March 2021

Online show to look back on Labour's ‘difficult’ year during lockdown

19 March 2021

Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Britain / 19 January 2021

John McDonnell to reveal books and music he finds most inspirational

19 January 2021

Guests to the New Year’s Eve online event will include Jer

Britain / 30 December 2020

Socialists invited to ring in the New Year at virtual party

30 December 2020

Labour Party's Apsana Begum (centre) at the launch of the La

Britain / 27 November 2020

Labour's Apsana Begum warns Westminster’s policies are contributing to rise in Islamophobia

27 November 2020

The Poplar and Limehouse MP wins cross-party support for EDM

David Graeber pictured in Amsterdam in 2015

Britain / 3 September 2020

Anthropologist, author and activist David Graeber dies, aged 59

3 September 2020

Labour leadership candidates Rebecca Long-Bailey, Lisa Nandy

Editorial: / 29 March 2020

We are in a war of words — and Labour needs to get its language clear

29 March 2020

Britain / 26 March 2020

Self-employed relief welcomed but unions and Labour urge it must be rolled out sooner

26 March 2020

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says making people wait till June could be ‘too late for millions’

Sports Direct CEO Mike Ashley leaving the Sports Direct head

Britain / 26 March 2020

Clothing retailers condemned for keeping crowded warehouses in operation

26 March 2020

A demonstrator protests against the government's sick pay al

Britain / 24 March 2020

McDonnell urges Tory Chancellor to throw lifeline for self-employed

24 March 2020

Newly installed Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leav

Britain / 25 February 2020

Chancellor must come clean over links to tax avoiders and tax havens, McDonnell says

25 February 2020

Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell outside HMP Belmarsh in Lon

Britain / 20 February 2020

McDonnell visits Assange at Belmarsh ahead of US extradition hearing

20 February 2020

Britain / 27 January 2020

McDonnell says left has failed to keep up with ‘evolution of capitalism’

27 January 2020