Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye It has been reported that bosses pay has climbed to record levels. Pay for the chief executives of
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Letter from a reader in a major UK city I have been a volunteer driver for a refugee charity in my city for the last

Editorial: labour movement must respond to pogroms by the far right
It is the fundamental responsibility of the organised workers’ movement to respond to the attacks by the far right on asylum seekers and Asian communities,

By John Pickard The new Labour government, like any Labour government, has a choice. It can challenge the vested interests of capitalism, the big banks,

Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 16-20 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,

From ‘Just treatment’ website The new Labour government has inherited a broken National Health Service, after 14 years of Conservative cuts, underfunding and outsourcing. There

By Andy Ford, Unite Health EC member The new Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has rightly castigated the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for, amongst many things,

What fascism meant then…and now
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member During the 1930s, Leon Trotsky wrote about the rise of fascism in Germany and other European countries.

Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye The good news is that Labour have agreed to honour the Pay Review Bodies’ recommendations on pay for

Arthur Scargill: documents show Thatcher agreed to settlement in October 1984
Continuing our occasional series on the great miners’ strike of 1984-85, we reproduce here a speech by the then NUM President, Arthur Scargill, which he