Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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Labour’s EU fanatics need to wake up
Party rebels must embrace Brexit or Labour risks becoming irrelevant, writes FAWZI IBRAHIM
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
IF LABOUR loses in either of the forthcoming by-elections in Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central, it would not be down to Jeremy Corbyn and his “lack of appeal” but to the infantile behaviour of some Labour MPs — in particular those who defied the three-line whip and voted against invoking Article 50 to start the process of exiting the EU.
It is one thing for the SNP to vote against invoking Article 50; they want nothing less than the break-up of the union.
It is quite another for Labour MPs to join them, given that the motion in front of them wasn’t which part of Britain wishes to leave the EU but whether the whole of Britain should leave, something that was resolved by the referendum.
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