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Two of Wigan’s finest – from Gerrard Winstanley to Harry Chadwick
EILEEN TURNBULL looks at the similarities between two struggles for justice, three centuries apart
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
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
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
WHEN asked to write about the Shrewsbury pickets for the Diggers Festival I started to think about what both had in common.
I soon realised that it was about fairness, equality and sharing for the benefit of the many, not the few.
Gerrard Winstanley who, with others, formed the True Levellers during the English Civil War, was born in Wigan in 1609. Harry Chadwick, a carpenter, has been a lifelong trade unionist in Wigan throughout his working life. He is the chairperson of the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign.
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