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"15 minute city" protester

Behind the far-right outcry on "15 minute cities"

Arson attacks on street bollards, vandalised wooden planters, a two thousand strong demonstration and a question in parliament claiming international socialist conspiracy: the mundane world of urban planning has become the unlikely rallying point for the post-Covid far right.

According to the conspiracy theory, three unrelated urban planning initiatives — low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), low emission zones (LEZs) and the “15 minute city” — are part of a nefarious plan of shady elites to restrict everyone’s movement to within 15 minutes walking distance of their home.

2011 public sector pensions strike

Trade unions and neoliberalism

The 2011 public sector pensions battle, taking place not that long after this article was published, was a huge missed opportunity to build up labour movement strength


Elliott Robinson reviews Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions under New Labour, Gary Daniels and John McIlroy (eds), Routledge.

(See pdf version of Solidarity 3/146, p9, for the tables of figures referred to in this article.)

Liz Truss resigns

The politico-economic consequences of Liz Truss

Andrew Gamble, author of The Conservative Nation and other books, talked to Martin Thomas from Solidarity.


There’s been a long civil war in the Conservative Party over Europe. It became more intense after the 2016 referendum. A majority of Conservative MPs and Cabinet Ministers voted Remain, but 57% of voters who had voted Conservative at the general election only a year before in 2015 repudiated David Cameron and voted Leave.

Septic tank at former Tuam Mother and Baby Home

The story of Ireland's hidden mass graves

In 2012 an amateur historian in the small town of Tuam in Galway (in the west of Ireland) published an article in a local journal about the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home. Catherine Corless, then in her late 50s, had quite recently gained an interest in local history through attending an evening course. She was in the process of becoming what Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Micheál Martin would call a “tireless crusader for dignity and truth”.

East Pakistan, 1969

The origins of Bangladesh and Pakistan's 1968

East Pakistan, 1969


Part two, telling the story of the war itself, is here.


Fifty years ago one of history’s biggest anti-colonial struggles triumphed.

On 16 December 1971, the Pakistani armed forces that had waged a nine-month campaign of genocidal mass murder to subjugate Pakistan’s eastern half surrendered in the face of Indian military intervention. East Pakistan – East Bengal – became the independent state of Bangladesh.

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