By John Pickard The new Labour government, like any Labour government, has a choice. It can challenge the vested interests of capitalism, the big banks,
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Miners’ Strike 1984-5 – Weeks 16-20 Update
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,
From ‘Just treatment’ website The new Labour government has inherited a broken National Health Service, after 14 years of Conservative cuts, underfunding and outsourcing. There
By Andy Ford, Unite Health EC member The new Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has rightly castigated the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for, amongst many things,
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What fascism meant then…and now
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour Member During the 1930s, Leon Trotsky wrote about the rise of fascism in Germany and other European countries.
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Arthur Scargill: documents show Thatcher agreed to settlement in October 1984
Continuing our occasional series on the great miners’ strike of 1984-85, we reproduce here a speech by the then NUM President, Arthur Scargill, which he
In these most unpredictable of times, we can be sure of one thing. In the coming months and years the small rebellion we saw this
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member Within three weeks, a back bench revolt has unfolded over the failure of the new government
By Cain O’Mahoney The CrowdStrike fiasco which caused chaos to transport, health services and banks across the globe is a graphic example of capitalism’s over-reliance
Many workers will have breathed a sigh of relief when the odious Tory government was crushed a couple weeks ago and will have looked forward
