Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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LAST January I was invited to Blythe Valley’s Constituency Labour Party meeting at the Terrace Club to talk about our UCU branch period-poverty campaign at Newcastle College — the first at a college in England.
I found myself speaking against the backdrop of bingo night in this traditional social club in the old mining community of Seaton Delaval.
I never expected this redbrick cornerstone of the Labour red wall to fall to the Tories, least of all to an MP who recently voted against key protections for migrant children.
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