There can be no argument after Rachel Reeves’ Spring budget statement, that the Starmer government has moved decisively in the direction of austerity, even if
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UK: still Winter, no sign of Spring
By Michael Roberts The UK government’s Spring statement on spending was as expected – really awful. First, Chancellor Rachel Reeves had to accept that the

The Socialist Health Association released the following statement after Rachel Reeves’ Spring budget statement: Last year, the Socialist Health Association campaigned throughout the country to

We re-publish this article by Richard Price (member of Leyton and Wanstead Labour Party). It was first published in Labour Hub on 1 March. The

Editorial: Israel resumes its killing and destruction in Gaza
As it turned out, the Israeli government did not even bother to find a pretext to break the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, which had been

By Left Horizons supporters in Cumbria Last week the Carlisle Constituency Labour Party passed a motion calling for the water industry to be brought back

Editorial: Starmer goes full Tory on welfare benefits
In many articles and editorials in the past, Left Horizons has described Keir Starmer’s disastrous leadership of the Labour Party as “Tory-lite”. But in his

Trump’s MAGA and deregulation
By Michael Roberts Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when

The British labour movement today – and the challenges ahead
By Steve McKenzie – a Unite Community member. Marxists represent the interests of the working class, those who have nothing to exchange but their labour. Our

By an NHS shop steward Labour promised to “fix the NHS”, but since their election victory we have seen what can only be described as