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
Dear Victoria Atkins and Amanda Pritchard, We are writing as NHS staff members to express our dismay and disbelief at your decision to cut back
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The Left and the Labour Party: Lessons from the 1920s – Part Two
Andy Ford (Warrington South Labour Member) completes his article on the relationship between the Communist Party and the Labour Party in the 1920s. Part two
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The Left and the Labour Party: Lessons from the 1920s – Part One
Andy Ford (Warrington South Labour member) looks at the relationship between the Communist Party and the Labour Party in the 1920s. Part one deals with
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member. As Panorama revealed this week, there are concerns about the use of private clinics and hospitals
By Cain O’Mahony In the West Midlands we are being bombarded by high quality leaflets coming through our letter boxes from the Conservative candidate and
By Left Horizons Alan Hardman’s book of political cartoons, Need not Greed, is coming out, reflecting the work of the most consistently socialist cartoonist of
By Mike Kennard in Cambridgeshire The GMB does not have the reputation of being a militant union fighting to the death for its members, nor
