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,
Category: Historical Archive
Fifty years ago today: The Portuguese Revolution begins
By Greg Oxley Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the revolution in Portugal, a process that unfolded over many months. Greg Oxley,
Review by John Pickard “It generally comes as a big surprise to people that there were women’s football matches during World War One. Not only
The 1944 strike wave: ‘the right to strike is part of the freedoms we fight for’
By Cain O’Mahony [photo shows “Bevin Boys” – conscripted miners in Cramlington, Northumberland] Eighty years ago, there was a political storm across Britain as trade
Letter from Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member In a letter to August Bebel in 1875, Karl Marx’s close friend and collaborator, Fredrick Engels, was highly
The Left and the Labour Party: Lessons from the 1920s – Part Two
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
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
By Bob Wade, Branch Secretary, Birmingham & Coventry NUJ The 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike was commemorated in Birmingham with a special photographic exhibition
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