By Andy Ford (Unite Health rep) Rishi Sunak was clearly intending to use immigration as a key tactic in the General Election. Now, unfortunately for
Category: Britain Archive
Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 12-15 Update
Throughout this 40th anniversary year of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular bulletins on features and developments that occurred during the strike, month
Left Horizons want the Tories out on July 4th – but here we publish two short contributions, from Andy Ford and John Wake, which point
Privatised water is making us poor…and ill!
By Joe Langabeer Public water supplies are not only expensive and prone to frequent interruptions through leaks and bursts, they are now also causing significant
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Remember Amber Rudd? She had the whip removed because of her opposition to Johnson’s Brexit proposals.
A ‘New Deal for Workers’: how it was repeatedly diluted
By Andy Ford The ‘New Deal for Working People’, painstakingly negotiated between the trade unions and Keir Starmer’s leadership team was, if not the jewel
By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead Labour Party member) It was with shock and anger that local Labour members discovered last week that Labour had
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) reviews a recent Channel 5 documentary, broadcast on 31 May. Smart motorways were first conceived as a means
By Cain O’Mahoney The ancient Greek saying “those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad” definitely applies to the Tories, with their latest
By John Pickard A ‘dead cat’ story is one thrown into the political mix to distract attention from the more important issues of the moment.