By Maureen Wade, chair, Birmingham UNISON retired members section. This month sees the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Grunwick strike, and it is
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Ed Waugh’s play goes down a storm in Belfast
Report by John Pickard The key task for all socialists and trade unionists in Northern Ireland today is to build workers’ unity in the face
By Andy Ford In July 1946, eighty years ago, the first shots were fired in the Chinese Civil War on the North China plains. The
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The Battle of Corporation Fields
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
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90 years since the generals’ revolt in Spain
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
By Lim Tean (People’s Alliance for Reform, Singapore) Left Horizons has no connection with The People’s Alliance for Reform in Singapore and nor do we agree
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The General Strike and the miners’ lock-out
By John Pickard The General Strike of May 1926 lasted only nine days. But the Great Lock-out of 1926 – which is how that struggle
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Dmitri Furmanov (1891-1926): a truthful and inspiring Soviet writer
By Andy Ford This year is the 100th anniversary of the death of the Soviet writer, Dmitri Furmanov, best known for his civil war novel,
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General Strike paper “The British Worker” – a good initiative of a timid leadership – part two
In this second and final part, RAY GOODSPEED looks at the reporting of the sudden end of the strike and its aftermath (9-17 May). Part
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The Thucydides trap and the decline of US imperialism
By Michael Roberts On the first day of talks during US President Donald Trump’s recent state visit to China, his host China’s Xi Jinping invoked
