Thatcher’s assault on the miners led to generational decay in communities across the country. And, 40 years on, amid crumbling infrastructure and dysfunctional public services, the Chancellor is set to continue her devastating legacy.
Rosa Luxemburg, born 153 years ago today, fought to win the socialist movement to a complete break with capitalism — arguing that only revolutionary transformation could create a world for workers.
Throughout her political life, Rosa Luxemburg remained committed to an internationalist version of socialism — one which fought for the working-class beyond national boundaries and against imperialism.
Far from the cliches about Manchester ‘doing things differently’, the city’s rapid takeover by luxury property developers is driving out working-class communities and suffocating local culture.
In response to a critical review of his book ‘The Next Shift’, historian Gabriel Winant argues that deindustrialisation cannot be reversed — and that it is foolish for the Left to pretend otherwise.
Pro-Imran Khan candidates defied intimidation and vote rigging to win Pakistan’s election. Their victory was a rejection of the country’s corrupt military elite — and the US interests they serve.
The irony of Keir Starmer's plan for a 'patriotic economy' is that it relies on corporate developers to enrich shareholders, many of which don't pay their taxes in Britain.
Olof Palme, the radical social democrat who led Sweden in the 1970s, first came to international prominence in an unexpected place — a cameo in the notorious 'sex film' I Am Curious Yellow.
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated on this day in 1986. He was the last social democratic leader to really believe in a world beyond capitalism.
The use of Islamophobia to depict peaceful protestors as violent mobs isn't just an attack on Muslims — it's an attack on all of our democratic rights.
Britain's political class has stoked a moral panic about British Muslims to dodge accountability for their role in Israel's genocide — unleashing a wave of Islamophobic hate crime.
Ronnie Campbell, who passed away last week, belonged to a dwindling breed of Labour politician. A miner who began work aged 14, his experience of the Northumberland coalfield's bitter class conflict inspired him to become one of Westminster's most committed socialists.