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Sean McGovern: disability rights activist who will be greatly missed
January 27, 1957 – May 6, 2020
My memories of Sean and the Remploy struggle by Claire Glasman, WinVisible
Claire and Sean, circa 2000 at a demonstration
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
I MET Sean McGovern more than 20 years ago at some meeting we attended.
He spoke from the floor as a union rep for the Remploy factory in Brixton, where he had previously worked.
In contrast to union men who seemed dour and bound by their institution, Sean was cheerful and upbeat, with a twinkle in his eye — and of course disabled, which to me was a bonus.
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