Report from Harry Hutchinson, Labour Northern Ireland The turnout in the Northern Ireland local government elections, as it was in the rest of the United
Month: May 2023
Resist new anti-Trade Union laws!
Letter from Mark Langabeer (Unite Community member) The latest round of anti-union laws is an attack on the right of workers to take industrial action.
By William F Ward, Unite activist [Editorial note: although we have carried other articles on the recent Unite NEC elections, Left Horizons editors believe it
By Michael Roberts There is a new burst of techno-optimism emerging over the application of ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs). One analyst reckons that
Letter from John Wake, Harlow The renaming of Harlow’s ‘Allende Avenue’ at the behest of Harlow Conservatives dishonours the memory of the thousands of people
Ray Goodspeed spoke to Antonia Berelson, a specialist nurse from East Sussex, after the recent Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress. They discussed the pay
By Michael Roberts A recent paper by mainstream heavyweights, Ben Bernanke (former Federal Reserve chief) and Olivier Blanchard (former chief economist at the IMF) has
Asbestos: “Miracle material” – slow killer!
Mike Kennard (former trade union heath and safety rep) examines an appalling threat to health and safety (see sources at end of article) In Britain
By Michael Roberts The G7 leaders meet this weekend in Hiroshima, Japan, the site of the first atomic bomb holocaust dropped by American bombers on
By Andy Ford, member of Warrington South CLP Janette Williamson, the left leader of the Labour Group on Wirral council on Merseyside has been dramatically