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

Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Week three update
Throughout this 40-year anniversary of the miners’ strike, Left Horizons will publish regular updates on how the strike developed around the country, as it happened,

Letter: The role of the trade union bureaucracy.
By Steve McKenzie (Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley Unite Community)[Photo Credit AP/Matt Dunham] In the Bulletin of the Left Opposition, November/December 1929, Leon Trotsky wrote, “The

By Cain O’Mahony There has been shock amongst the political diaspora that senior Conservatives – a former Prime Minister, a Vice-Chair of the party, a

The Miners’ Strike of 1984-5: a heroic struggle – a bitter defeat.
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.

Lessons from the revolutionary history of the French working class: 1930s, part two
By Greg Oxley, La Riposte, France This is the second part of a two-part article by Greg Oxley, editor of the French marxist newspaper La

Lessons from the revolutionary history of the French working class: 1930s, part one
By Greg Oxley, La Riposte, France This is the first part of a two-part article by Greg Oxley, editor of the French marxist newspaper La

Andy Ford (Warrington South Labour member) continues his occasional series on the Soviet military WW2 history. [Featured photo credit can be seen here] The Battle

Socialist clarity or muddled compromise: CGT in France in 1935. The view of Trotsky – Part Two.
Part Two – Workers’ control, peasant farmers, the need for class struggle. This following text is the second part of a speech made to the