US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
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William Cuffay — black labour movement pioneer
PETER FROST looks back two centuries to tell the story of an almost forgotten black leader of the British labour movement
JOHN CALLOW introduces the work of Geoffrey Trease, who placed ordinary people at the centre of his historical fiction for children, creating adventurous stories to inspire the possibilities of social change
The Isle of Wight’s Victorian holiday boom drew visitors from across Europe, including the founders of scientific socialism, writes KEITH FLETT
The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Unless ministers match reform with investment, the profession and the people it serves will continue to bear the cost, says KATE RAMSDEN
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
LAST week just as the racist Boris Johnson became Britain’s latest unelected Tory prime minister, black and BAME Labour and trade union activists met in London to discuss stop some Brexit’s campaigner’s racist attack on the free movement of labour.
The racist incitement of anti-immigrant attitudes and the role this plays as a catalyst for expansion of the far-right agenda into mainstream politics was a major focus of discussions at the meeting.
As more and more details of the disgusting Windrush scandal become known, they demonstrate the Tory Party’s and Britain’s contribution to dangerous growing white nationalism all across Europe.
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