John Westmoreland

John is a history teacher and UCU rep. He is an active member of the People's Assembly and writes regularly for Counterfire.

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Norfolk teachers strike rally outside The Forum. Source: Roger Blackwell - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

FE strikes: the fight’s still on in the colleges

John Westmoreland

John Prescott speaking at a Crawley Labour Party fund-raising dinner, December 2009. Source: Andrew Skudder - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0

John Prescott: the working-class neoliberal

John Westmoreland

March for Clean Water. Photo: Steve Eason / CC BY-NC 2.0

We will fight for our water rights

John Westmoreland

Donald Trump, August 2024. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0

Trump victory: the bitter fruit of Biden’s politics

John Westmoreland

Keir Starmer speaking at the 2020 Labour Party leadership election hustings in Bristol on the morning of Saturday 1 February 2020, in the Ashton Gate Stadium Lansdown Stand. Photo: Rwendland / Wikimedia commons / CC-BY-SA-4.0

Labour’s next steps to make workers pay!

John Westmoreland

Adam Raz, Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property (Verso 2024), 352pp.

Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property – book review

John Westmoreland

Anti Nazi League badge. Photo: Leo Reynolds / CC BY-NC-SA

The Anti-Nazi League remembered

John Westmoreland

Margret Thatcher. Photo - IPPA Staff, Israel Press and Photo Agency (I.P.P.A.) / Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel / CC BY 4.0

The workers’ Tardis: Time: June 1979. Event: miners striking over a Tory budget

John Westmoreland

Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People in Las Vegas, Nevada. Source: Gage Skidmore - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0

Kamala Harris: Not being Biden isn’t enough

John Westmoreland

Keir Starmer on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch, May 2024. Photo: Keir Starmer / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The filthy consequences of Tory privatisation

John Westmoreland

David Torrance, The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government (Bloomsbury 2024), 336pp.

The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government – book review

John Westmoreland

Keir Starmer. Photo: Keir Starmer / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Labour says no way to workers’ rights

John Westmoreland

Keir Starmer, during the: Repowering the World Session at the WEF 2023. Source: World Economic Forum - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

New Deal or cold compromise? Starmer and union leaders agree electoral pact on workers’ rights

John Westmoreland

UCU strike rally, London. Photo: @ucu / Twitter

What happened to the strike wave: the unions, socialists and the rank and file

John Westmoreland

Jewish military briefing at Deir Yassin prior to the massacre. Photo: Public Domain

The Deir Yassin Massacre and the roots of Israel’s ‘genocidal intent’

John Westmoreland

Birmingham City Council House is in Victoria Square, Birmingham and is Grade II* listed. Source: Elliott Brown - Wikicommons / cropped from original / shared under license CC BY 2.0

Birmingham City Council: sacrificed on the altar of austerity

John Westmoreland and Rob Horsfield

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