By Ray Goodspeed, original LGSM member 1984-85 and Left Horizons supporter During this 40th anniversary year of the of the great miners’ strike of 1984-85,
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The Galloway “Novara” interview: who is splitting the left?
Readers who engage with social media may well have stumbled across a dispute between George Galloway, the new MP for Rochdale, and the left news
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
By Andy Ford, Warrington Trades Union Council The February 2023 murder of Brianna Ghey in Culcheth near Warrington shocked the nation and now the sentencing
Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) on the latest round of this shameful saga (photo – Ray Goodspeed) The decision of the UK Tory Government
Chelsea Manning’s autobiography: exposing the dark secrets of US imperialism.
Ray Goodspeed reviews “README.txt” (2022 – The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House) Chelsea Manning’s life-story, described in this book (named after the computer file she uploaded
By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) Trans rights campaigners and their allies throughout the labour movement were delighted to receive a present before the
Rhys Jameson gives his take on the Qatar 2022 Football World Cup Capitalism is mired in a series of interlocking crises, everywhere you look there
By Rhys Jameson They promised us a World Cup unlike any previous World Cup and they have certainly delivered on that promise. Never before has
Illegal to be me – homophobia in the Commonwealth.
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour Member) reviews Tom Daley’s documentary “Illegal to be me” on homophobia in the Commonwealth (see here). The diver and