In the first major rebuke for Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a ‘war-powers’ resolution this week, blocking Donald Trump from carrying out more strikes on Iran Trump will ignore the resolution, of course…
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Pablo Híjar, of El Socialismo, interviews René Behoteguy, who describes the struggles now going on as Bolivian workers refuse to give up what they have achieved…
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B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organisation, describes how the state is conducting ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem, by expelling an entire Palestinian neighbourhood...
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The Scottish Worker May 1926
Continuing the theme of the General Strike, which lasted only nine days IN 1926, GRAY ALLAN looks at the bulletin produced by the Scottish TUC, the Scottish Worker
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An American blog and 250 years of the same old racket…a civil servant's May Day confession. By Alan Browne, a working stiff in a right-to-work state
We're just two months from the biggest spectacle of nationalism this country has seen—the 250th...
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Joe Langabeer looks at the next left smear campaign – against Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party
A quote attributed to Mark Twain reads: “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes”. Well, in this case, history is repeating itself...
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1926 General Strike: all solid between Glasgow and Carlisle
Continuing the theme of the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, here we look at a snapshot of the strike in southern Scotland and the Carlisle area...
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Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: the Reform election surge is down to Starmer
Town halls up and down the country are now going to be flooded with Reform UK councillors: a surge of racists, xenophobes, transphobes, homophobes and bigots of all kinds.
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Book review: the rea; women in M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H was a film, later turned into a popular TV series, that was broadcast from 1972 to 1983. But for a real-life description of a MASH, in this case based on the Vietnam War, read The Women, by Kristin Hannah…
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Andy Ford, newly-elected Unite NEC member, looks at the outcome of the recent elections in that union.
The recent elections to the Executive of the Unite union returned a decisive majority for candidates aligned with Sharon Graham…
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Joe Langabeer reviews the Amazon Prime TV series, ‘The Boys’
The Boys is currently in its final season on Amazon Prime. It is based on the Garth Ennis comic books of the same name, about a group of misfits known as ‘The Boys’...
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Roger Silverman askes why Corbyn is backing an independent without telling his own party
Even in the bizarre context of British politics today, it is unusual for a political party’s leader to endorse the candidate of a rival party...
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On the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jamie Green takes another look at Ed Waugh’s play on ‘The Cramlington Train Wreckers’...
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A century ago, the 1926 General Strike started. Cain O’Mahony describes the background to the greatest conflict in British industrial history and why the strike was a lost opportunity…
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Andy Ford, Chair Unite NW Health Committee, looks at new revelations about the Palantir ‘web’ in the NHS
Recent revelations in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shed a little bit more light…
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By Andy Ford, Chair Unite NW Health Committee comments on the baleful influence of Palantir – a corruption at the heart of the NHS
The NHS signed on with US firm Palantir to provide its ‘Federated Data Platform’ in 2023 at a cost of £330 million.
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Latest blog by Richard Mellor in California: professor John Mearsheimer on Iran war, and does the US subordinate its Interests to Israel?
I have considerable respect for John Mearsheimer. I believe he is a genuine character...
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