Issue 015

The intelligence services of each country have colluded, behind the backs of their national parliaments and without people’s knowledge, to ensure a truth teller can never be freely allowed to publish the truth about our decaying capitalist system, a system which has nothing left to support its goals but endless war and austerity. 

The Nakba (the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of the majority of the Palestinian population) took place in 1948. It has been 74 years, almost three quarters of a century. In that time, the world has had ample opportunity to right the wrongs done to the Palestinian people, to censure and indeed stop the Israeli […]

AS we today complain, rightly so, of the dearth of good journalists in the mainstream media, I find myself re-reading Paul Foot’s ‘Words as Weapons’, and, for those who may have grown up without the benefit of seeing his investigative articles as they were published in newspapers from The Sun (yes, that much-reviled paper of […]

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Truth grenades are cognitive munitions which scatter the enemy’s lines. They’re an essential part of our weaponry against disinformation and spin – against false narratives which pretend that greed, selfishness and power-hunger are good, that they benefit ordinary people in their struggle to survive.

Short-term holding facilities (STHFs), where arrivals are very often sent immediately, are reported to be in a particularly shameful state, and those confined in them are among the most forgotten and overlooked victims of Tory rule in Britain.

Thatcher’s government pulled out all the stops to beat the miners, and the police were drafted in from all over the country to the front line, which was south Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Along with the cohorts of police – reputedly on £500 a week, in 1984! – came the army, who posed as policemen in unmarked uniforms, as well as Special Branch and all manner of spooks determined to break the strike.

Northern Ireland has been prominent in the headlines in the week beginning 9th May. The situation has been a thorn in the side of the Tories since the Brexit referendum back in 2016.

Barates and Regina will not be forgotten, thanks to archaeology. And history is rescuing more stories from our multicultural past.

This has not stopped Boris Johnson joining the long line of ministers who see the civil service as an easy target for revenue savings, either through pay freezes, cuts, privatisation and contracting out, all under the guise of improving efficiency.

On December 18, Linnell was given a grand funeral. A huge procession of socialists, radicals, feminists, Irish Republicans and working people walked from the West End of London to the East, swelling to tens of thousands.

91,000 civil servants face the sack to deal with the cost-of-living crisis. Let’s defend the civil servants and sack the government instead.

People are marginalised by being ignored. Marx was right. We need to challenge the dominant ideology through struggle.

This month’s issue looks at forgotten people. There are people that our rulers would like us to forget, like the miners who fought the Thatcher government, the refugees held in detention and threatened with deportation or the Palestinians who are still struggling for freedom under the oppressive apartheid regime of the Israeli state. Then there […]

In Episode 20 of the Socialist Hour Dave, Susie and Mike talk about the Buffalo murders, and Dave interviews Michelle Torez a social activist who has gone from being institutionalised to producing inspiraction for others in her situation. It is an honest and compelling listen.