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,
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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
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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
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
By John Pickard Israel has directly killed around 45,000 Gaza Palestinians, 70% of whom, according to the UN, are women and children. Netanyahu is now
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The Budget has gone down badly with many employers. The supermarket chains claim that it will
By Michael Roberts Every year the Historical Materialism journal holds a conference in London. It is attended by (mostly) academics and students (mostly of a
By John Pickard We are well used to the lying machine that masquerades as the Israeli government press office. So we should not be surprised
By Michael Roberts As the FT put it: “In the end, it wasn’t even close. A presidential election long forecast to dance on a knife’s
By Andy Ford If you want to read an explanation of why the Russian Revolution was necessay, read Peasants by Anton Chekhov. Professors and journalists
