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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.
On Martin Luther King Day in the USA, Richard Mellor in California comments on King, Malcolm X, and working class unity...

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Martin Luther King Day
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and working class unity By Richard Mellor in CaliforniaThe video below is a very powerful and accurate account, brief as it is, of how the European/White capitalist c...
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January 19, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Andy Ford reviews BBC Radio 4’s Briefing Room programme on Trump’s Venezuelan adventure: “it will not end well”

This programme can sometimes give a fascinating insight into the views of some of the more serious spokespersons of international capitalism...

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Radio review: Trump’s Venezuealan adventure.
Review by Andy Ford BBC Radio 4’s Briefing Room programme can sometimes give a fascinating insight into the views of some of the more sober and serious spokespersons of international capitalism. On...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Minneapolis trade unions call general strike over ICE

Among other things, the unions are calling for ICE to leave Minneapolis…

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Minneapolis trade unions call general strike over ICE
Jack Gerson reports from USA that the Minneapolis AFL-CIO, the US national trade union federation, has endorsed the call for a one-day general strike on January 23 against ICE. The text of the press r...
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January 17, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Another persoanal account of ICE terrorism in Minneapolis, republished from a Facebook feed…

The ICE brutality in the US state of Minnesota has reached the point where many commentators and ordinary workers are comparing ICE to Nazi organisations in Germany…

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Systematic ICE terrorism in Minneapolis
Report by Brandon Siguenza (from Facebook post) [ED – The level of ICT brutality in the US state of Minnesota has reached the point where many commentators and ordinary workers are comparing ICE op...
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January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Umar Shahid looks at the protests in Iran and asks if this is the spark of revolution

History teaches that revolutions erupt not when oppression is at its peak, but when the ruling power reveals its brittleness. For Iranians, that moment is now...

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Iran: the spark of revolution?
By: Umar Shahid History teaches that revolutions erupt not when oppression is at its peak, but when the ruling power reveals its brittleness. For Iranians, that moment is now. Following a devastati...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Adel Mostowfi, an Iranian socialist, looks at the mass protests and upheavals in Iran

The current uprising had been anticipated three months earlier, when the Islamic government arrested two leftist economists...

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Mass protests and upheavals in IRAN
By Adel Mostowfi, Iranian socialist “In short, the communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements, the...
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January 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Cliff Willmeng in Minneapolis reports on ICE raiding high schools in Minneapolis, and using pepper spray on students

The city has responded like no place I have ever lived in. Minneapolis Public Schools shut down for the rest of the week...

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ICE raids high school in Minneapolis, pepper-sprays students
Report from Cliff Willmeng in Minneapolis Needless to say, it’s been a long, painful week and I feel bad not to have been more available to my wife and kids and our friends and neighbours during th...
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January 11, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: imperialism and the naked plunder of Venezuela

Donald Trump is a privileged, narcissistic and unpredictable misogynist who wouldn’t know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the nose...

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Editorial: imperialism and naked plunder
Donald Trump is a privileged, narcissistic and unpredictable misogynist who wouldn’t know the truth if it jumped up and bit him on the nose. But it would be a mistake to assume that the policies of hi...
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January 11, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Richard Mellor in the USA comments on the unprovoked killing of a woman in Minneapolis

Good spoke to an ICE agent, “calmly” and said “everything was ‘fine’ and ‘I’m not mad at you’” before slowly driving away and only seconds before she was shot.

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Unprovoked killing of woman by ICE agent in Minneapolis
By Richard Mellor The completely unprovoked killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has created a storm of protest in the USA. Good spoke to an ICE agent,  “calmly” and said “ev...
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January 10, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Dave Putson reports on the hundreds of Palestinians killed since the ‘ceasefire’ came into effect and the appalling conditions suffered by the survivors in Gaza

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Hundreds of Gaza deaths since ‘ceasefire’
By Dave Putson The alleged “ceasefire” that commenced in October 2025, has now seen in excess of 412 Palestinian murders and more than 1200 Palestinians injured in Gaza. These have been the result ...
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January 8, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Cain O’Mahony looks at why there is a witch-hunt over the Aston Villa/Maccabi football game and why Israel is desperate to stay in UEFA

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Aston Villa witch-hunt: Israel desperate to stay in EUFA
By Cain O’Mahony The Labour leadership, egged on by the Tory media, are continuing their bizarre witch-hunt against West Midlands Police and Birmingham City Council over the Aston Villa v Maccabi T...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Andy Ford, biomedical scientist and unite members comments on Prostate cancer screening being put off again

The decision by the National Screening Committee not to offer prostate cancer screening to high-risk men shows the hollow nature of the government

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Prostate Cancer screening put off again
By Andy Ford, biomedical scientist and Unite member The decision from the UK National Screening Committee not to offer prostate cancer screening to high-risk men once again shows the hollow nature ...
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January 7, 2026 at 1:28 PM
What the Monroe Doctrine means and its link to raw US military power

In his press conference, justifying the bombing of Caracas and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Donald Trump cited the Monroe Doctrine...

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The Monroe Doctrine and raw military power
By John Pickard In his press conference, justifying the bombing of Caracas and the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Donald Trump cited the Monroe Doctrine...
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January 5, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: Trump confirms that 2026 will be a “wild” year

The original intention of this editorial comment was to make a simple point: that politics in 2026 will more volatile and unpredictable than ever before...

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Editorial: Trump baptises 2026, the “wild” year
The original intention of this editorial comment was to make a simple point: that politics in 2026 will more volatile and unpredictable than ever before. But no sooner had a draft been written, than e...
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January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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