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‘Snapping for socialism’ – Pat Mantle 1940-2024
Remembering the legendary Morning Star photographer with a knack for being in the right place at the right time
Pat Mantle
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
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
LEGENDARY Daily Worker and Morning Star photographer for over three decades, Pat Mantle, has died in Cork aged 83.
Fulsome tributes have been paid to Pat from his adopted home in Ballydehob where he became a well-loved mover and shaker in the community.
Widely known and liked by trade union and labour movement activists and leaders across the UK and Ireland, Pat was there to capture all the big events from the 1960s onwards in a period of intense industrial activity, whether it was the Ford seamstresses’ equal pay battle, release of the Pentonville dockers, Grunwick, the miners’ strikes or the Wapping printworkers.
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