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
Category: LGBT+ Archive
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
Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP – personal capacity) concludes his two part article. Part one can be found here. As we have argued, gender
Trans people’s rights – a socialist perspective (Part One)
By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP – personal capacity) (Part Two here) Over the last few years, the visibility of transgender (trans) people has