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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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

‘A year on strike and it was the best year of my life’: The miners’ strike 40 years on

John Westmoreland

Bombing Refugee camps, Hospitals, Ambulances, Children - is not self defence. Source: Alisdare Hickson - Flickr / cropped from original / share under license CC BY-SA 2.0

Rochdale rejects the establishment

John Westmoreland

Free Palestine protest, Westminster London 6th January 2024. Photo: Steve Eason / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 DEED

Palestine towers over parliament’s fiasco

John Westmoreland

Lev (Leon) Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin, Moscow (L-R), 1919. Source: TASS - Wikicommons / cropped from original / shared from public domain

Lenin’s Last Testament: the prophetic last words of a Marxist for our times

John Westmoreland

Rishi Sunak at a press conference. Photo: Number 10 on Flickr

Sunak’s Rwanda Bill: A cold-hearted Tory Christmas and a hate-filled New Year

John Westmoreland

The revenge of history: How ghosts from Britain’s imperial past are haunting the Tories this Christmas

John Westmoreland

Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly. Photo: Wikimedia commons

The Rwanda policy: a failing Tory war on human rights

John Westmoreland

Berlin 1933, BBC

Berlin 1933: BBC4 – review

John Westmoreland

Munich Marienplatz, 8 November 1923. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 119-1486 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

The Munich Putsch and the Hitler myth

John Westmoreland

Memorial for protesters shot by Reichswehr on 27 October 1923, Saxony. Photo: Unukorno / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0

The German October

John Westmoreland

Paul Clammer, Black Crown: Henri Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom (Hurst & Company, 2023) pp 378.

Black Crown: Henri Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom – book review

John Westmoreland

Women on strike in the US, 1948. Photo: Kheel Centre, Flickr

Marxism and the Trade Unions

John Westmoreland

York College picket line. Photo: John Westmoreland

York College strike: ‘We can’t survive on 2.5’

John Westmoreland

St Ignatius College, a Jesuit school in Enfield, London now closed. Source: Pjposullivan -Flickr - Wikicommon / cropped form original / shared under license CC BY-SA 2.0

RAAC and ruin: schools, hospitals and a failing system

John Westmoreland