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A new BlueSky account, associated with UK-based socialist website, Left-Horizons, at www.left-horizons.com/
Social media is generally too shallow and transient, but we will signpost links on here for all of our key articles.
Gray Allan, member of UNISON’s Falkirk branch, looks at the victory of Andrea Egan as General Secretary, and suggests that there is no place for complacency...

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Andrea Egan Wins UNISON Election!
Gray Allan - UNISON Falkirk Council Branch Andrea Egan, a social worker from Bolton and Secretary of Bolton local government branch has been elected General Secretary of UNISON for the next five ye...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The second part of a two-part article on the political crisis in France: a strategy and programme to deal with the crisis
A victory for the Rassemblement Nationale (RN) is a very real danger. However, this is not inevitable by any means...

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A programme to deal with crisis in France
By Greg Oxley [the second part of a two-part article) We have said that a victory for the Rassemblement Nationale (RN) is a very real danger. Several polls and elections results are there to confir...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons, and why socialists must condemn the killings at Bondi Beach

Socialists everywhere condemn without qualification the killing of sixteen Jewish people, and the wounding of dozens more, at Bondi Beach...

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Editorial: socialists condemn killings at Bondi Beach
Socialists and labour movement activists everywhere should condemn without qualification the killing of sixteen Jewish people, and the wounding of dozens more, at Bondi Beach, Australia. That attack w...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Greg Oxley editor of the French Marxist website, La Riposte, in the first part of a two-part article about France, a country in deep crisis...

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France: a country in deep crisis
By Greg Oxley. [The first part of a two-part article] Against a backdrop of chronic economic stagnation, France has entered a period of social and institutional crisis. The machinery of government ...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Support the Filton 24 hunger strikers! Jamie Green describes the background to the largest coordinated hunger strike in British prisons for four decades.
Imprisoned pro-Palestinian activists, arrested for breaking into an arms facility, are on hunger strike.
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Support the Filton 24 hunger strikers
By Jamie Green 24 UK activists imprisoned for opposing genocide In the largest coordinated hunger strike since the 1981 Republican hunger strikes that led the deaths of Bobby Sands and nine oth...
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December 16, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: a balance sheet of the conference of Your Party.

A full week after the founding conference of Your Party – now its official name – we can take stock of the event, and its significance...

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Editorial: a balance sheet of Your Party conference
A full week after the founding conference of Your Party – now its official name – we can take stock of the event, and its significance. The event was marked by real enthusiasm from the members present...
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December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Trump’s latest hypocrisy is revealed: as he threatens Venezuela, he releases a real drug smuggler

The latest Gallup poll ratings on Trump show support tanking on all aspects of his administration’s policies. His overall rating is minus-24...

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Trump hypocrisy: threatens Venezuela but releases real drug baron
By John Pickard The latest US Gallup poll ratings on Donald Trump show his support tanking on all aspects of his administration’s policies. His overall rating is minus-24, with 60% disapproval and ...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Latest book review in Left Horizons: The Children of the Arbat

If the third book in the trilogy is as good as the first two, it makes Anatoli Rybakov the finest Russian novelist dealing specifically with the period of the rise and consolidation of Stalinism.

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Book review: The Children of the Arbat
By John Pickard I have just started reading the third book in the Arbat trilogy by Anatoli Rybakov (1911-1998). If it is half as good as the first two, it makes Rybakov in my opinion the finest Rus...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
SHA opposes new PFI scheme to fund health centres

Health Secretary has made it clear that he is prepared to use the hugely expensive and discredited PFI system to fund the building of neighbourhood health centres.

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SHA opposes new PFI scheme to fund health centres
By Left Horizons reporters Health Secretary has made it clear that he is prepared to use the hugely expensive and discredited PFI system to fund the building of neighbourhood health centres. We are...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Gray Allan, UNISON Falkirk Council Branch member, reports on the anti-fascist demonstration in Glasgow last weekend

In Glasgow last Saturday around a thousand trade unionists and community activists marched against racism and the rise of the far-right.

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Scottish trade unions march against racism & the far right
Gray Allan, UNISON Falkirk Council Branch In Glasgow on Saturday November 29, around a thousand trade unionists and community activists marched against racism and the rise of the far-right. This wa...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Joe Langabeer looks at how Wes Streeting is privatising the NHS even more

Wes Streeting has been Health Secretary for well over a year, but his promises to deliver fundamental change to the NHS have so far failed to materialise.

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Wes Streeting: more NHS privatisation
By Joe Langabeer Wes Streeting has been Health Secretary for well over a year, but his promises to deliver fundamental change to the NHS have so far failed to materialise. While he and the Labour g...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Trump's war of nerves against Venezuela

While Donald Trump has said he intends to pardon former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug smuggling, a so-called ‘war on drugs’ has been the pretext for US miltary threats against Venezuela.

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Trump’s war of nerves against Venezuela
By Andreas Bülow While Donald Trump has said he intends to pardon former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug smuggling, a so-called ‘war on drugs’ has been the pretext for ...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In this, the second part of a two-part article, Joe Langabeer looks at the Islamophobia of GB News

The main focus of the racism of Reform members and their beloved GB News is today without a doubt Islam.

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The Islamophobia of GB News
By Joe Langabeer [This is the second part of a two-part article] Recent revelations by former students at the same private school have revealed extremely plausible stories of a disgraceful level...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons. An autumn budget statement making workers pay

Wednesday’s autumn budget statement was clever politically, in so far as it may have bought some time for the leadership of Keir Starmer.

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Editorial: autumn budget making workers pay
Wednesday’s autumn budget statement was clever politically, in so far as it may have bought some time for the leadership of Keir Starmer. It will have appeased many Labour MPs and the weakest and most...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The text of a leaflet produced by members of YOUR PARTY for the founding conference this coming weekend…
The national founding conference of Your Party offers a great opportunity to put this new party back on course after the rocky first few months.

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Your Party: founding conference is a great opportunity
By members of Your Party The national founding conference of Your Party this coming weekend offers a great opportunity to put this new left party back on course after the rocky first few months. ...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In Part One of a two-part article, Joe Langabeer looks at the baleful influence and financing of the right-wing mouthpiece GB News
If you have been in blissful ignorance over the past few years, you might have missed the birth of GB News

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GB News: mouthpiece of the right
By Joe Langabeer [This is Part One of a two-part article] If you have been in blissful ignorance over the past few years, you might have missed the birth of the right-wing media machine, GB News...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
From the Socialist Health Association website, Rathi Guhadasan explains why Labour must rethink its approach to asylum.

The Socialist Health Association condemns the asylum reforms announced this week by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood...

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The wrong prescription: why Labour must rethink on asylum
by Rathi Guhadasan (from the Socialist Health Association website) The Socialist Health Association condemns the asylum reforms announced this week by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, which represen...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
In the USA, Republican, Marjorie Taylor Greene has had a serious failling out with Donald Trump. Here, blogger, Rachel Hurley asks if Greene is leading a coup in the MAGA Movement?

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USA: is Marjorie Taylor Greene leading a coup in the MAGA movement?
In recent days there has been a serious falling out between Donald Trump and a leading (former) ‘Trumpist’ Republican, Marjorie Taylor Greene, specifically over the issue of the Epstein files, the rel...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: Shabana Mahmood’s new asylum policy is straight out of the Reform/Tory handbook

In announcing new regulations to deal with asylum seekers, the Home Secretary has dragged the ‘Labour’ government to new depths.

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‘Labour’ asylum policy straight out of Tory/Reform playbook
In announcing new regulations to deal with asylum seekers, the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has dragged the ‘Labour’ government to new depths. What Mahmood announced as policy on Monday could have...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons – the crisis and the bias at the BBC.
George Orwell’s dystoptian novel, 1984, had a Ministry of Truth which issued nothing but lies. That description sums up the big majority of the billionaire-owned British media.

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Editorial: right-wing coup at the BBC
George Orwell’s dystoptian novel, 1984, had a Ministry of Truth which issued nothing but lies and misinformation. That description pretty much sums up the big majority of the billionaire-owned British...
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November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: on the stunning victory for left policies in last Tuesday’s election in New York

The first major elections since Donald Trump re-entered the White House were a major blow to him and his party.

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Editorial: stunning victory for left policies in New York
The first major elections since Donald Trump re-entered the White House were a major blow to him and his party. But the stunning result in New York was also a significant rebuke to the leadership of t...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
By Robin Jamieson, retired psychologist, explains why he almost feels sorry for ‘Prince’ Andrew
After reading "Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York", by Andrew Lownie, I was shocked to find myself almost feeling sorry for the Royal family…

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Almost sorry for Andrew?
By Robin Jamieson, retired psychologist After reading Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, by Andrew Lownie, I was shocked to find myself, a lifelong socialist and republican, almost f...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Stephen Edwards writes from Chicago about what the Trump regime represents: “shock doctrine” for the USA.
It is the same principle as the GW Bush administration used during the invasion of Iraq – shock and awe...
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Trump regime is ‘shock doctrine’ for the USA
By Stephen Edwards in Chicago [The first of a two-part article] It is the same principle as the GW Bush administration used during the invasion of Iraq – shock and awe, with no regard for anythi...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Andy Ford, Chair, Unite NW Health Committee, asks what exactly IS Reform UK?

We all know who Nigel Farage is. But what is his political vehicle, Reform UK?
One thing it is not, is a political party, as the term is commonly understood.

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What exactly is Reform UK?
By Andy Ford We all know who Nigel Farage is. But what is his political vehicle, Reform UK? One thing it is not, is a political party, as the term is commonly understood. Reform UK is owned by a...
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November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Frank Hammer, retired member of the US United Auto Workers Union, writes about that union’s internationalism and what should happen for May Day 2026

Just two months ago, my union – the United Automobile Workers (UAW) – did a remarkable thing...

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USA: the UAW, internationalism and May Day 2026
by Frank Hammer Just two months ago, my union – the United Automobile Workers (UAW) – did a remarkable thing. It made public its pledge to fight for the rights of autoworkers – not its own dues-pay...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM