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A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
When the TUC owned the biggest-circulation newspaper in the world
PETER FROST laments the death of the Daily Herald exactly half a century ago
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
MATT KERR takes stock of a night of by-elections, where the long repeated warnings for Labour and the political class remain stubbornly unheeded
Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Despite forming most of Britain’s trade union membership, women continue to endure harassment, inequality and minimal support for their sex-based rights, warns VALERIE COULTAS
WOULD you believe that the Trades Union Congress (TUC) once had its own newspaper to rival the Tory anti-union opinions of the rest of Fleet Street? Not only that, but that the TUC’s own paper had the largest circulation of any paper anywhere in the world.
The story starts more than a century ago in December 1910. Militant London printers were locked out by the bosses when they demanded a 48-hour week.
Being printers, what could be more obvious than to bring out a strike sheet to tell their side of the story?
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