By Greg Oxley Fifty years ago this week, April 25 1974 saw the beginning of a revolutionary movement in Portugal, initiated by army officers, but
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By Left Horizons reporters Every year, on April 28, trade unions, trades councils and the TUC commemorate International Workers’ Memorial Day, marking the fact that
By Hilary Barker Today, since the election the hard right candidate, Javier Milei, the working class of Argentina is facing huge attacks on their living
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,
Fifty years ago today: The Portuguese Revolution begins
By Greg Oxley Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the revolution in Portugal, a process that unfolded over many months. Greg Oxley,
by Richard Mellor in California It is heartwarming to witness students at Yale, Harvard, Columbia and other US universities protesting the Biden regime’s arming and
Review by John Pickard “It generally comes as a big surprise to people that there were women’s football matches during World War One. Not only
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
By Michael Roberts Back in 2021, Guglielmo Carchedi and I published a paper on Historical Materialism called The Economics of Modern Imperialism. The paper focused
By John Pickard The Biden administration has set some alarm bells ringing in Jerusalem by its threat to impose sanctions on a unit of the