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Remembering Mike Pentelow
Mike Pentelow
[Mark Thomas]
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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
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MIKE PENTELOW, communist, journalist and author, has died peacefully at his home on Wednesday April 1 2020 aged 73.
Mike started his journalism on the Thurrock Gazette before moving to the Morning Star sports desk, becoming the Star’s industrial correspondent in the 1970s.
In the 1980s he went to work for the Transport and General Workers Union (now Unite).
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