By Andy Ford, Unite Health NIC The perils of privatised ambulance services have just been shown, yet again, by the collapse of ‘SVL Homecare’ in
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By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Party member The BBC recently broadcast a programme on the attempt by the IRA to assassinate Margaret Thatcher
Dave Putson reviews this recent Left Horizons booklet by Steve McKenzie which is based on his long experience in the trades union movement. “Rebuilding Our
By Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) The Tory Leadership contest seems pretty irrelevant for most workers. However , the election does give an
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Is there really a £22bn ‘black hole’?
Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP member BBC’s Radio 4 programme More Or Less focuses on, and often debunks, fake statistics, hence its title. It recently
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Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 25-29 Update
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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Keep Grangemouth Working campaign
By David Cartwright, Unite, Glasgow Retired Members’ Branch Since last November, a campaign has been underway to save oil refinery jobs at Grangemouth in Central
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Editorial: Labour conference – Promises of “change” but implementing austerity
Thousands of Labour Party members will be in Liverpool over the next week, but what takes place will be less of a conference and more
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The High Speed train – is it worth the cost?
TV review by Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member This week’s Panorama programme investigated the reasons behind the ballooning costs of HS2, the high-speed rail
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Letter: Priorities for Activists
Letter from Steve McKenzie (Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley Unite Community) There can be no doubt that the failures of the Labour government will pave the way
