PCS elections: support the Coalition for Change

By Left Horizons supporters in PCS [Editorial Note: The Coalition for Change (CfC) has a slight majority on the NEC of the Public and Commercial Services Union,Read More
NHS crisis: Wes Streeting just doesn’t get it

By an NHS shop steward Labour promised to “fix the NHS”, but since their election victory we have seen what can only be described as inaction, punctuatedRead More
A whiff of stagflation

By Michael Roberts The US consumer price inflation reached 3% year-on-year in January 2025. Energy prices rose for the first time in five months and food priceRead More
Editorial: Starmer now a recruiting sergeant for Farage

The Labour Party under Keir Starmer’s disastrous leadership is haemorrhaging votes in every single council by-election that is taking place, whether in England, Scotland or Wales. ItRead More
West Bank Palestinians under siege

By John Pickard The Israeli government is taking advantage of the ceasefire in Gaza and the support of arch-Zionist Donald Trump, to increase its repression in theRead More
Global warming: the gulf between reality and response

By John Pickard The gap between what needs to be done to minimise and mitigate against climate change is wide and getting wider. What is also nowRead More
What’s up with capitalism?

By Michael Roberts In an important new development, the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma has launched a new Center for Heterodox Economics (CHE). Led by Clara Mattei asRead More
The ‘masterplan’ to privatise the NHS

By Steve McKenzie (Unite Community member) The masterplan of the private healthcare industry is, and always has been, to turn the NHS into a US style healthcareRead More
Trade tariffs as economic policy: the debate

By Michael Roberts The picture at the top of the article is of Michael Pettis, the US professor who has put forward his arguments in support ofRead More
The Yalta conference: The imperialists and Stalinists carve up Europe

The latest in our occasional series of articles by Andy Ford on 80-year anniversaries of events in WW2 in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe [featured photoRead More
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