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The General Election Campaign: The Tyranny of the Centre

In the past the Conservative Party has pointed out that the Labour Party is funded by the Trade Union movement and therefore under their control. The latest figures published by the Electoral Commission show that of the £21.5m received by the Labour Party in 2023, just £5.9m came from the trade union movement, compared with £14.5m from companies and millionaires – a huge increase on the previous year. Two wealthy individuals gave the Labour Party more money last year than all the trade unions combined. Gary Lubner, whose company played an important role busting international sanctions against the South African apartheid regime in the 1980s, gave £4.6m and supermarket owner, David Sainsbury, contributed £3.1m and his daughter Fran Perrin a £1m. All three are major funders of Labour Friends of Israel. (12)

In September, 1997, Spartacus Educational founder and managing director John Simkin became the first educational publisher in Britain to establish a website that was willing to provide teachers and students with free educational materials.

According to a survey carried out by the Fischer Trust, Spartacus Educational is one of the top three websites used by history teachers and students in Britain (the other two are BBC History and the Public Record Office’s Learning Curve). The Spartacus Educational website currently gets up to 7 million page impressions a month and 3 million unique visitors.

As well as running the Spartacus Educational website John Simkin has also produced material for the Electronic Telegraph, the European Virtual School and the Guardian's educational website, Learn. He was also a member of the European History E-Learning Project (E-Help), a project to encourage and improve use of ICT and the internet in classrooms across the continent.

We have published six e-books, Charles Dickens: A Biography (October, 2012), First World War Encyclopedia (October, 2012), Assassination of John F. Kennedy Encyclopedia (November, 2012), Gandhi: A Biography (December, 2012), The Spanish Civil War (December, 2012) and The American Civil War (December, 2012). He also contributed an article to the recently published book, Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning in History (December, 2012).