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
Continuing the theme of the General Strike, which lasted only nine days, from May 3 to May 12, GRAY ALLAN looks at the bulletin produced
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1986: the Chernobyl nuclear disaster – part three
Part III: Have lessons been learnt? A resounding no! In the final part of a three-part article, CAIN O’MAHONY, who has worked in the Chernobyl
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General Strike paper “The British Worker” – a good initiative of a timid leadership – part one
In this article RAY GOODSPEED looks at the first four issues of this paper, from 5-8 May. Part two (here) will look at issues produced
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1926 General Strike: all solid between Glasgow and Carlisle
By John Pickard Continuing the theme of the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, here we look at a snapshot of the strike in southern
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Book review: the real women in M*A*S*H
By John Pickard M*A*S*H was a film, later turned into a popular TV series, that was broadcast from 1972 to 1983. It was based on a
