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,
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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

Cass Review: Transphobic fist in a velvet glove.
By Ray Goodspeed The last week has seen an orgy of spiteful glee from the conservative right and their allies in the right-wing media as

The Left and the Labour Party: Lessons from the 1920s – Part Two
Andy Ford (Warrington South Labour Member) completes his article on the relationship between the Communist Party and the Labour Party in the 1920s. Part two

The Left and the Labour Party: Lessons from the 1920s – Part One
Andy Ford (Warrington South Labour member) looks at the relationship between the Communist Party and the Labour Party in the 1920s. Part one deals with

Letter from Mark Langabeer, member of Hastings and Rye Labour Party. I’ve been informed by reliable sources that the newspaper, Socialist Appeal (SA), has changed

By Mark Langabeer – Member of Hastings & Rye Labour Party As has been widely reported, Frank Hester, who has donated £10 million to Tory

By Mike Kennard in Cambridgeshire The GMB does not have the reputation of being a militant union fighting to the death for its members, nor

By Dave Putson On 26 March, I went, at short notice, to the lobby of the Royal Courts of Justice (RCJ), as this could be

Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Week three update
Throughout this 40-year anniversary of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular updates on how the strike developed around the country, as it happened,