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Editorial: Epstein shows the degeneracy and greed at the top From the point of view of the broad sweep of history, people like Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson, and Prince Andrew are ‘accidental’ figures. They are infamous and well-known, though without particu...

Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: the Epstein scandal reveals the degeneracy and greed at the top

Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson, and Prince Andrew personify the rottenness and greed that permeate the whole of the capitalist system.

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Book review: end game in Venezuela By Michael Roberts The kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife by US military forces, the subsequent takeover by the Vice President Rodriguez and her agreement to allow the US to co...

Marxist economist, Michael Roberts, reviews a new book on Venezuela and suggests this is the ‘end game’
The kidnapping of Venezuela’s President Maduro and his wife by US forces, the subsequent takeover by the Vice President Rodriguez and her agreement...
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Venezuela with a gun to its head By Andreas Bülow Under military pressure, sanctions and direct threats from the United States, the Venezuelan government is rolling back key parts of the Bolivarian revolution. A reform of the Hydr...

Andreas Bülow describes recent counter-reforms in Venezuela, a country with a gun to its head

Under military pressure, sanctions and direct threats from the United States, the Venezuelan government is rolling back key parts of the Bolivarian revolution.

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Mamdani’s rapid capitulation to big capital By Richard Mellor in California Now, confronting a grim fiscal picture in his second month as mayor, Mr. Mamdani no longer intends to back the growth of the $1 billion-plus initiative known as City...

In his latest blog, Richard Mellor in California notes the rapid capitulation of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to big capital

It doesn’t take long does it? We have seen this so many times by now.

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TV Review: a BBC drama on the finance ‘industry’ By Joe Langabeer Industry, a co-production between the BBC and HBO, is a drama that examines the chaotic and corrupt lives of young bankers working for an investment bank in London. It is currentl...

Joe Langabeer reviews a very revealing BBC/HBO drama on the finance “Industry”

Industry, a co-production between the BBC and HBO, is a drama that examines the chaotic and corrupt lives of young bankers working for an investment bank in London.

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‘Bloodied handprint’ protests cross the border into Bosnia By Cain O’Mahoney Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been  brought to a standstill for over four days this week by mass demonstrations, in protest at the death of a student in a tram ...

Cain O’Mahoney describes how the ‘blooded handprint’ protests have crossed the border from Serbia into Bosnia this week
Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, has been brought to a standstill for over four days this week by mass demonstrations

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Four Lessons from the UAW’s Turn Towards Class Struggle Chris Brooks The following article was published in the “Jacobin” a left-wing journal published in the USA. While Left Horizons disagrees with many issues published in “Jacobin” we think this artic...

Lessons and discussion points on the election of a militant union leader in the American UAW.
A former chief of staff to United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, key to an attempt to transform a once mighty union hobbled by corruption. Here’s what he learned...
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90 years ago: Popular Front elected in Spain By Tim White Today, February 16, sees the ninetieth anniversary of the election of the Popular Front in Spain, an event which opened the floodgates to a revolutionary movement that very nearly swep...

Tim White looks at the run up to the election of the Spanish Popular Front, ninety years ago today

Today sees the ninetieth anniversary of the election of the Popular Front in Spain, an event which opened the floodgates to a revolutionary movement

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Global warming and the “point of no return” By John Pickard One of the most dismal features of Donald Trump’s administration – and one which would be repeated by a Reform government here, if it ever got the chance – is its reactionary bias a...

One of the most dismal features of Donald Trump’s administration – and one which would be repeated by a Reform government here, if it ever got the chance – is its reactionary bias against modern science.

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USA: authoritarianism, corruption and the fight for democracy and socialism By Greg Oxley The United States today is a country run by a gang of brutal and blatantly racist authoritarian thugs, steeped in corruption. They are hell-bent on using their power to attack the liv...

The USA today: authoritarianism, corruption and the fight for democracy and socialism
The United States today is a country run by brutal and racist thugs, steeped in corruption. They are hell-bent on using their power to attack living standards

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Editorial: Mandelson’s rich lifestyle not unique to Labour’s right wing Peter Mandelson has lit the fuse that will finally blow up the Starmer Labour leadership, although we don’t know quite yet how long the fuse is. Labour’s right wing – all those who were happy to be pa...

Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons – Peter Mandelson’s rich lifestyle is not unique to Labour’s right-wing. It is not just “one rotten apple”.

Peter Mandelson has lit the fuse that will finally blow up the Starmer Labour leadership...

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USDAW members fighting fire and re-hire By Andy Ford The latest TUC circular to union reps describes the Employment Rights Act 2025 – which has now received ‘Royal Assent’ – as “an historic win for working people.” That being the case, a...

Andy Ford asks why USDAW members are still fighting fire and re-hire, despite the passage of the Employment Rights Act

The Act has received ‘Royal Assent’ so union activists will be asking why workers are having to strike against “fire and re-hire”.

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Ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues – as must the protests By John Pickard International news has been so utterly dominated by the lunatic ramblings and the aggressive foreign policy stunts of Donald Trump that for most of the mainstream press, Gaza and th...

Ethnic cleansing of Palestine continues – as must the protests

International news has been so utterly dominated by the lunatic ramblings and the aggressive foreign policy stunts of Donald Trump...

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USA: Jeffrey Pretti murder forces union heads to say something By Richard Mellor in California The murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a member of local 366g of the AFGE union in Minneapolis, by Trump’s neo-fascist militia (ICE), has forced some important figures a...

Richard Mellor in California writes about the fallout from the murder of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by ICE agents – even forcing union leaders to say something.

If there is anything that makes Americans feel proud to be American, it is the people of Minneapolis...

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Holocaust Memorial Day, January 27 By Dr Agnes Kory (PhD, Musicology)  On this day many will remember and mourn the six million murdered by the Nazis. I will be among the mourners, and will think, even more than on any other day, ab...

Agnes Kory, a Jewish Holocaust Child Survivor comments on Holocaust Memorial Day, today, January 27

On this day many will remember and mourn the six million murdered by the Nazis. I will be among the mourners...

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TV review: To Walk Invisible – the Bronte sisters By Andy Ford As it often does with period drama, the BBC has done an outstanding job in dramatising the backgrounds of the three Bronte sisters in To Walk Invisible, about the Bronte sisters. Yorks...

Andy Ford reviews: To Walk Invisible – the Bronte sisters as northern heroines

As it often does with period drama, the BBC has done an outstanding job in dramatising the backgrounds of the three Bronte sisters...

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The changing world order By Roger Silverman The world today is in a more disturbed state than at any time in the last eight decades. The global structure that came into being after the Second World War had divided the worl...

Roger Silverman looks at the changing world order and its implications.

Today the balance of forces has once again shifted dramatically, with the unprecedented growth of China and the rise of the BRICS nations...

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Editorial: Davos shows fundamental shift in world relations The official attendees at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, are not in the remotest bit concerned with the economic interests of the working masses of the world. It is a jamboree ...

Latest EDITORIAL in Left Horizons: how the World Economic Forum shows a fundamental shift in world relations

Trump’s ignorant bombast, and its stark contrast to Carney’s analysis, only emphasise the point the latter was making...

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ICE: the masked face of US fascism By Greg Oxley Wherever ICE has been sent into a US city or an area, its agents are conducting racial profiling on a massive scale. They are given quotas to attain. They must make 2000, 3000 or 5000...

ICE: The masked face of American fascism

Wherever ICE has been sent into a US city or an area, its agents are conducting racial profiling on a massive scale. They are given quotas to attain...

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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...

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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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...

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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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...

Minneapolis trade unions call general strike over ICE

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

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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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 ...

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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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...

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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