By John Pickard For working class families in the past, the pawnbroker was the equivalent of the pay-day money-lender, except on more favourable terms. The
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Dr Lorraine Grimes, of Maynooth University, in Ireland, examines the scandal of the repatriation of thousands of unmarried women and girls from Britain to Ireland

By Sam Gleaden, Mental Health Worker They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual

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 Mike Kennard, Chair of N.E. Cambridgeshire CLP (personal capacity) Today all of England’s rivers are now considered to be in poor condition, with our

Creation or Evolution?
In this letter, Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour Party member) sets out his materialist view on the origin of life and the evolutionary process.

By Antje Joel [Editorial note: Antje Joel, author of A Good Beating – An Everyday Story of Domestic Violence, describes the background to her book.

By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2019), drawing on the author’s own research, is an investigation

We are publishing here the following was the full text of the composite resolution on the NHS and Social Care, in the name of Sutton

As we did for the resolution on the Green New Deal, we thought it useful to publish the whole of the composite motion on HOUSING