Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Week seven
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular bulletins on important issues and developments that occurred during the strike, month byRead More
Fifty years ago today: The Portuguese Revolution begins
By Greg Oxley Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the revolution in Portugal, a process that unfolded over many months. Greg Oxley, editor ofRead More
Jewish students lead the way in Gaza protests on US campuses
by Richard Mellor in California It is heartwarming to witness students at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and other US universities protesting the Biden regime’s arming and overall supportRead More
Wor Bella: star of World War One women’s football
Review by John Pickard “It generally comes as a big surprise to people that there were women’s football matches during World War One. Not only that, tensRead More
The 1944 strike wave: ‘the right to strike is part of the freedoms we fight for’
By Cain O’Mahony [photo shows “Bevin Boys” – conscripted miners in Cramlington, Northumberland] Eighty years ago, there was a political storm across Britain as trade unionists foughtRead More
Further thoughts on the economics of imperialism
By Michael Roberts Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper on Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused exclusively onRead More
US to sanction IDF unit for rights abuses – too little, too late
By John Pickard The Biden administration has set some alarm bells ringing in Jerusalem by its threat to impose sanctions on a unit of the Israeli DefenceRead More
Labour’s official policy to use the private health sector
Letter from Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member Health service campaigners in the Erith and Thamesmead constituency, on the outer edge of South East London, wrote to theirRead More
Scottish Labour candidate suspended: the background lies in UNISON
By Yunus Bakhsh The suspension of Labour’s candidate for Gordon Brown’s old seat of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is a bit of a rarity, in that it appearsRead More
Editorial: Labour government will hit the ground stumbling
As the Labour right wing consolidated its grip on the Party and Keir Starmer binned the ten pledges that got him elected, there were many on thatRead More
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