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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Yvonne Blenkinsop — last of the Headscarf Revolutionaries
One of the four working class-women who rapidly forced an entire industy to change has died just weeks short of her 84th birthday — biographer BRIAN W LAVERY recounts her life and achievements
The 'Headscarf Revolutionaries' (left-right) Yvonne Blenkinsop, Mary Denness, Lillian Bilocca and Christine Smallbone.
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
IN what became known as the dark winter of 1968, four working-class women from Hull were cast into the eye of a storm the aftermath of which would save countless lives — but at great personal cost.
They argued trawler bosses were sacrificing workers’ lives by cutting corners and their campaign of women-led activism captured the nation’s attention when it took the women of Hull to the Houses of Parliament.
They were subjected to a sexist backlash, pillory in the press, poison pen letters, threats and one of them, Lillian Bilocca, lost her job.
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