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Interview: “It was absolutely liberating!” Remembering the 1984-5 miners’ strike

Posted on 30th October 2024 by International Socialism

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the 1984-5 miners’ strike, a major class confrontation between the government of Margaret Thatcher and a trade union that had helped bring down the previous Conservative administration in the early… Continue Reading →

Interview Britain, Thatcher, The Great Miners’ Strike

Confronting Britain’s far-right problem

Posted on 2nd October 2024 by International Socialism

There are moments when the flood tide of history threatens to overwhelm individuals and organisations, rendering them almost powerless.1 There are other moments, when, with sufficient clarity, a willingness to strike out in a new direction and a modicum of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Britain, Fascism, the far right

The British labour movement’s halting recovery

Posted on 7th April 2023 by International Socialism

In autumn 1979, Tony Cliff, writing in International Socialism, surveyed the landscape of labour struggle in Britain. He concluded that, in the second half of the 1970s, the balance of forces had tilted in favour of the ruling class.1 A… Continue Reading →

Analysis Britain, British working class, Trade union bureaucracy, Trade unions

Interview: exorcising the cult of Churchill

Posted on 10th October 2022 by International Socialism

The past few years have seen both challenges to the official account of Winston Churchill’s life and a hectoring defence of the national mythmaking surrounding him. This dynamic was epitomised by images of the Churchill statue in Westminister being placed… Continue Reading →

Interview Britain, Second World War, Winston Churchill

Trussonomics confronts the crisis

Posted on 21st September 2022 by International Socialism

Liz Truss, asked to form a new government in what turned out to be the dying act of Queen Elizabeth II, confronts one of the greatest crises for an incoming British prime minister with one of the weakest mandates.1 Truss… Continue Reading →

Analysis Britain, Economics, inflation

Universal Basic Income: reasons to be cheerful or no go central?

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a useful… Continue Reading →

Article austerity, Britain, Labour Party

And now the British question

Posted on 6th July 2015 by Camilla

The British general election of 7 May 2015 represented a curious mixture of stasis and dramatic change. But its outcome—the election of the first majority Tory government for 20 years—underlines that what we are confronted with is a crisis of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Britain, European Union, Scotland
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