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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Canada’s disgrace: parliament’s Nazi celebration cannot be forgotten or forgiven
DAN ROSS, a community activist and Communist Party member based in Manchester, discusses why the Canadian parliament knew exactly what it was doing when it praised a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, and why it matters
Zelensky and Trudeau cheer Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, last Friday
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 Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Anthony Rota, has issued a quiet statement apologising for his astonishing praise for 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament last week.
Hundreds of Canadian MPs gave not one but two standing ovations to Hunka, a Canadian-Ukrainian veteran of the Nazi Waffen-SS Galizien division during the second world war (euphemistically described by AP News and others as the “First Ukrainian Division”).
Hundreds of Canadian MPs, including the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, gleefully smiling and applauding was a chilling spectacle.
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