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By Gary Hammond and Mike Whale (Hull and district Trades Council) On July 12 1936, the organised working class of Hull, 10,000 or more labour and tradeRead More

John and Glenda O’Brien, in Carlisle, consider the interim report of the Timms PIP Review. ****** ​On 9 July, 2026, the Department for Work and Pensions publishedRead More

By Tim White Ninety years ago, on the morning of July 17, 1936, a radio broadcast was sent from Cuerta, in Spanish Morocco, to mainland Spain, announcingRead More

Letter from Richard Mellor in California You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t feel depressed at times. We’re living through a period of capitalist decay, a social systemRead More

By Michael Roberts China’s second quarter GDP growth saw a significant deceleration, down to 4.3% year over year from 5.0% in the first quarter and weaker thanRead More

By Andy Ford These are just my notes, not the official record, so there may be slight slips and omissions. I voted for the nomination, as althoughRead More

By Lim Tean on Substack Left Horizons has no connection with The People’s Alliance for Reform in Singapore, of which Lim Tean is General Secretary. But the subjectRead More

The forthcoming by-election in Clacton, scheduled for August 13, has elements of high farce. In the absence of candidates from all the main parties, who are boycottingRead More

By Michael Roberts In just over 200 years after winning independence from the British empire in 1776, the United States had become the most successful capitalist state,Read More

By John Pickard B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organisation, has produced a new report, called Unshielded Childhood, about the huge number of Palestinian children and teenagers whoRead More