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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Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member ITV’s Tonight programme reported on the growing number of children living in poverty . According to
By Mike Kennard The Post Office Horizon scandal is a saga which goes on as the public enquiry lays bare the duplicity and perjury of
The Galloway “Novara” interview: who is splitting the left?
Readers who engage with social media may well have stumbled across a dispute between George Galloway, the new MP for Rochdale, and the left news
By Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member The NHS is currently facing the biggest crisis in its 76 year history. Huge swathes of the service have
Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Week seven
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,
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
Dear Victoria Atkins and Amanda Pritchard, We are writing as NHS staff members to express our dismay and disbelief at your decision to cut back
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