Editorial: COP29 is an irrelevance
As the COP29 conference is drawing to a close, its end has been delayed because of the gulf in perceptions between the most advanced countries – thoseRead More
Letter: Death of John Prescott
By Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) [photo of John Prescott – Department for the Environment, Transport and the Regions see here ] The former DeputyRead More
Bakers’ union fury at private equity-owned Morrisons bakery closure
Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union press release: The BFAWU have reacted furiously at the beyond disappointing announcement today that Morrisons are to close their Rathbones siteRead More
Private equity: vampire capital
By Michael Roberts Marx is often famously quoted from Capital that “Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more,Read More
Jeremy Clarkson is revolting
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member. Reportedly around 10,000 farmers went to Westminster to protest about Inheritance Tax being applied to farming land forRead More
The ‘Cramlington Train Wreckers’ of 1926
Review by Jamie Green The Cramlington Train Wreckers, by Ed Waugh, has just completed a very successful tour in the North East. This is a powerful storyRead More
Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 30-35 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, month byRead More
Trump’s cabinet appointments point to chaos and upheaval
By John Pickard The election of such a man as Donald Trump as US president is a measure of the profound moral and political crisis within theRead More
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 all theRead More
HM 2024 part two: digital and fossil fuel capitalism and imperialism
By Michael Roberts At this year’s Historical Materialism conference, I attended a session on what is called ‘fossil fuel capitalism’. Lukas Slothius from the LSE argued thatRead More
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