Ray Goodspeed provides an overview which sets the scene for the strike that became a defining experience for a generation of socialists and trade unionists.
Category: Britain
Report from Dave Putson Supporters of Julian Assange have been at the High Court two days running now, where he is fighting against extradition to
by Andy Ford With all attention on the Tory collapses in Wellingborough and Kingswood, this by-election in Cheshire East could have slipped under the radar.
Dave Putson (Unite Community – Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley) – considers the recent scandal in the wider context of corporate greed. ***** It is more than
By Jane Ingham Internationally renowned political cartoonist, Alan Hardman from Laycock, Keighley died in hospital on Thursday January 18, 2024 after a period of illness.
Cain O’Mahony looks at the first ever Labour Government in 1924 and the dirty tricks used against it. [featured photo – the Daily Mail front
Mass turnout for Gaza ceasefire march in Birmingham
By Cain O’Mahony Around 15,000 people marched into Birmingham city centre on Saturday 20 January, in the largest protest yet in the city. The bulk
Gaza Protest Saturday, 13th Jan: Join the Red Bloc!
This is an important initiative, supported and sponsored by Left Horizons to bring together Labour Party-based organisations to show rank-and-file Labour solidarity with the people
By John Pickard It says something about so-called ‘British Justice’ that it takes a TV mini-series to make a Prime Minister sit up and pay
It isn’t just the weather that is grey and gloomy this first week of January. It is also the political and economic outlook for the