Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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Workers must seize this new sovereignty
DOUG NICHOLLS argues that the working class as a whole ensured the country can govern itself again thanks to Brexit - but it must now start setting the agenda
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
LAST Friday, Britain left the EU and with that the Johnson government lost its legitimacy. The Tories were elected to get us out of the EU, to lay the basis for national independence. Their time is now up.
There are three things that will seek to prop them up.
At a technical, legalistic and constitutional level the profoundly undemocratic Fixed Term Parliament Act, passed in 2011 in the vain hope of keeping the Liberal Democrats in power for eternity, means that individual MPs can only be deselected if they commit a heinous crime and the Speaker of the House of Commons triggers a ballot which gets more than 10 per cent of a constituencies’ electorate to vote for a by-election.
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