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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The Reds no longer under the bed
Crude scaremongering by the Tories is in tune with Labour right's prevailing paranoias
Labour turncoat John Woodcock speaks at the opening session of the Progress annual conference, in central London, in March 2015
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
“FAR-LEFT” influence on Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion to be probed,” read the “exclusive” headline in the Daily Telegraph.
“Attempts by far-left activists to ‘hijack’ movements including Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion are being investigated in a review ordered by Boris Johnson,” it said, with the review led by turncoat ex-Labour MP John Woodcock.
The idea of reds stirring up black activists sounded familiar, so I looked back at some old issues of The Times.
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