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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Reeves and public sector pensions
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Rachel Reeves recently announced changes to public sector (local government) pension schemes. She wants to roll
Letter from Bob Edwards, Harlow Labour member I’ve been involved in the Labour Party since around 1963, but I’ve never seen such anger has been
By Michael Roberts The newly elected Labour government’s first budget has just been presented. Rachel Reeves, the UK finance minister (called Chancellor of the Exchequer
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The budget was described as a traditional Labour Party budget. ‘Tax and spend’ was the cry
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Editorial: despite the hype, this was not a budget for ‘working people’
If there is one thing that can be said for Rachel Reeves’ budget, the first ever by a woman Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was
By Andy Ford, Liverpool DLP delegate 1984-87 and Unite NHS rep Veterans of the Liverpool City Council campaign against local government cuts mingled at Terry
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First Labour government ended a hundred years ago
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The first Labour Government was elected in January 1924 and subsequently fell in the general election nine
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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
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member As Left-Horizons predicted, this year’s Labour conference appeared to be dominated by the right-wing, a procession
