Margaret Thatcher

Malvinas memorial
In Depth

Trump’s task to force Starmer on Malvinas

A war to save Thatcher’s political career
28 April 2026
Norman Tebbit in 2020
Comment

Norman Tebbit: Thatcher’s boot boy

A vile Tory MP
09 July 2025
Reviews & Culture

Strike—new film shows heroic miners’ struggle

The workers who took on Thatcher
20 June 2024
Pickets and police battle during the Miners' Strike of 1984 to 85
Miners’ Strike 1984-85

New report on Orgreave 1984 reveals state’s lies

Evidence of cops' brutality
18 June 2024
Alex Callinicos

Union Jack waving is all the Tories have left

Bringing in national service will be a joke to many
28 May 2024
Rachel Reeves
The SW View

Labour digs up Thatcher—again

Rachel Reeves’s speech celebrates Thatcher
19 March 2024
Scala culture Thatcher
Reviews & Culture

Scala—the cinema that provided a refuge from Thatcherism

Remembering a beloved cinema
30 January 2024
Ex-miner Arthur Critichlow from the series
Reviews & Culture

Police brutality against striking miners and Orgreave cover ups laid bare

Review of new Channel 4 series on the Miners' strike
29 January 2024
In Depth

Stockport Messenger 1983: strikers vs the state

When Thatcher went on the offensive
24 November 2023
Muslim women listening to the speeches in Trafalgar Sq on Palestine protest
In Depth

Why does the right devalue Muslim lives?

Muslims are mobilising for Palestine
10 November 2023
Liverpool Boys from the Blackstuff
Reviews & Culture

1980s TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff makes welcome theatre return

TV shows gets a stage adaptation
04 October 2023
Reviews & Culture

Britain in the 1960s—a society that was ripe for an explosion

New book from David Kynaston
25 September 2023
In Depth

50 years since Pinochet’s bloody coup

Three articles look at the lessons from Chile in 1973
05 September 2023
Margaret Thatcher, friend of Augusto Pinochet
In Depth

British ruling class hoped for a showdown with left after Chile coup

The British ruling class supported the coup
05 September 2023
housing Tories rent
Background Check

Renters are the real victims of housing crisis—not landlords

Landlords are parasites
27 August 2023
News

Thames Water could go bust—and privatisation is to blame

15 million people affected
28 June 2023
News

Jeremy Hunt outlines new Tory attacks at Margaret Thatcher Conference

Strike to stop the plans
14 June 2023
The SW View

Nigel Lawson’s rotten Thatcherite legacy

Former chancellor bites the dust
04 April 2023
World Economic Forum meeting
Alex Callinicos

Elites gather as need for radical change grows

Workers face economic crisis as rich meet
24 January 2023
Ambulance workers' demonstration
In Depth

1989—when ambulance workers took on Thatcher

The strike was a massive focus of solidarity
10 December 2022
Long Reads

Trussonomics’ defeat showed the gap between free market rhetoric and capitalist reality

Truss created a crisis within neoliberalism
31 October 2022
Kwarteng Tories pound
Alex Callinicos

Pound collapses on Kwarteng’s watch

The pound plummets
26 September 2022
News

Compensation comes ‘too little, too late’ for victims of contaminated blood

Justice for contaminated blood survivors now
18 August 2022
SAS
In Depth

The SAS—doing the dirty work of British imperialism

SAS crimes revealed
16 July 2022