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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Thomas Kuczynski (12/11/1944-19/08/2023)
Georg Fülberth remembers the internationally renowned Marxist scholar
(L to R) Stories from the Luna Park: Historical-Critical Reflections on the Economy of the Present, PapyRossa Verlag (2014); Breadcrumbs from the Bosses’ Tables: Background to the compensation payments to forced labourers deported to Germany during the Second World War, Verbrecher Verlag (2004); Thomas Kuczynski in 2018
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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
THOMAS KUCZYNSKI was born on November 12, 1944, in London, where his family was living in exile after fleeing Nazi Germany.
He was a member of a prominent family of German-Jewish intellectuals. His grandfather, father and mother were all economists and statisticians. And Thomas, too, continued the family tradition and studied statistics, completing his doctorate in 1972.
Between 1972 and 1991 he worked at the Berlin Institute for Economic History at the Academy of Sciences of the German Democratic Republic, serving as its last director before the institute was shut down as one of the painful results of unification.
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