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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Striking to halt the Tory Great Train Robbery
RMT members taking industrial action to defend rail jobs and services against rampant profiteering by private monopolies are standing up for us all, writes RMT president, ALEX GORDON
DEFENDING SERVICES: RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on a picket line outside Euston station in London last month
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
AMERICAN writer Mark Twain satirised 19th-century oligarchs JP Morgan and John D Rockefeller as “robber barons” of the new “Gilded Age.”
Tory Britain in 2022 feels increasingly like a Mark Twain novel. Just not as funny.
Today, private utility giants levy tolls on customers safe in the knowledge that generous donations to their sponsored politicians will see off any short-term temptation to tax their windfall profits.
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