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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Trespass and roaming: our rights and responsibilities
Looking at the new hit book The Trespasser’s Companion, longstanding author and conservationist campaigner DAVE BANGS argues the burgeoning movement must include new codes of guardianship to protect the nature we love
Thousands take to Dartmoor to defend wild camping, January 2023
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story
JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
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WITH the right to roam back once more as a live political issue, Nick Hayes’s new book, The Trespasser’s Companion (Bloomsbury, 2022), could not be more timely. It is an informative and attractive read, and it will lift your spirits. Buy it.
In 1999 Marion Shoard’s excellent book, A Right to Roam, provided fuel for the last up-swelling of activism on this issue, while Michael Meacher introduced his “Crow Bill,” which became the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000). Shoard’s book was a great deal more detailed and methodically argued than Hayes’s, and remains indispensable.
Meacher’s Crow Act brought us some very partial and unevenly spread gains. Still, only 8 per cent of our countryside is free for us to wander by legal right.
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