From Ray Goodspeed Looking at Wes Streeting’s performance in the House of Commons while announcing the ban on puberty blockers and taking questions, it is
Category: LGBT+ Archive

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners – Solidarity Forever!
By Ray Goodspeed, original LGSM member 1984-85 and Left Horizons supporter During this 40th anniversary year of the of the great miners’ strike of 1984-85,

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

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

By Andy Ford, Warrington Trades Union Council The February 2023 murder of Brianna Ghey in Culcheth near Warrington shocked the nation and now the sentencing

Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) on the latest round of this shameful saga (photo – Ray Goodspeed) The decision of the UK Tory Government

Chelsea Manning’s autobiography: exposing the dark secrets of US imperialism.
Ray Goodspeed reviews “README.txt” (2022 – The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House) Chelsea Manning’s life-story, described in this book (named after the computer file she uploaded

By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) Trans rights campaigners and their allies throughout the labour movement were delighted to receive a present before the

Rhys Jameson gives his take on the Qatar 2022 Football World Cup Capitalism is mired in a series of interlocking crises, everywhere you look there

By Rhys Jameson They promised us a World Cup unlike any previous World Cup and they have certainly delivered on that promise. Never before has