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 Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The BBC Panorama programme on Monday May 14 looked at the scandal of the infected blood given
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
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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
The main headline of last Thursday’s local election results is that the Tories got the battering they deserved and which everyone was expecting. But a
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
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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,
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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
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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
