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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An EU deal is the first step and not the end result to Brexit
Parliament has been given one simple task — get the UK out of the EU, says 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
THE convergence of the Tory European Research Group (ERG) and the Labour Blairites is toxic and dangerous. Labour, with its programme for rebuilding British industry and manufacturing, has nothing in common with either of these groups whose vision of the UK are not dissimilar — both want a neoliberal free-market Britain, the first as a free-wheeling, free-dealing unregulated offshore island and the other as a member of a union that would ensure the dominance of neoliberal economics regardless of which government the electorate chooses to put into Downing Street.
The ERG behaves like an group of opportunist thieves hoping to grab the loot in one single night raid before they are uncovered. The Blairite anti-Corbyn Remainers wish to keep us in the EU, thus frustrating any future Corbyn government from carrying out its economic and social programme.
The working class voted to leave the EU. They understand that this may not be done in one single swoop, that it may take time. They are in it in the long term, hence their acquiescence with a transition period.
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