Private equity: vampire capital
By Michael Roberts Marx is often famously quoted from Capital that “Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more,Read More
Jeremy Clarkson is revolting
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member. Reportedly around 10,000 farmers went to Westminster to protest about Inheritance Tax being applied to farming land forRead More
The ‘Cramlington Train Wreckers’ of 1926
Review by Jamie Green The Cramlington Train Wreckers, by Ed Waugh, has just completed a very successful tour in the North East. This is a powerful storyRead More
Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 30-35 Update
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
Trump’s cabinet appointments point to chaos and upheaval
By John Pickard The election of such a man as Donald Trump as US president is a measure of the profound moral and political crisis within theRead More
Reeves and public sector pensions
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Rachel Reeves recently announced changes to public sector (local government) pension schemes. She wants to roll all theRead More
HM 2024 part two: digital and fossil fuel capitalism and imperialism
By Michael Roberts At this year’s Historical Materialism conference, I attended a session on what is called ‘fossil fuel capitalism’. Lukas Slothius from the LSE argued thatRead More
How Jewish settlers became the law on the West Bank
By John Pickard Israel has directly killed around 45,000 Gaza Palestinians, 70% of whom, according to the UN, are women and children. Netanyahu is now ramping upRead More
Labour’s budget hasn’t pleased the bosses
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The Budget has gone down badly with many employers. The supermarket chains claim that it will result inRead More
HM 2024 part one: late capitalism and inflation
By Michael Roberts Every year the Historical Materialism journal holds a conference in London. It is attended by (mostly) academics and students (mostly of a Marxist viewpoint)Read More
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