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Bernie Steer, last of the Pentonville Five
Farewell to a hero of the Dockers’ Strike of 1972
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
BERNIE STEER, the last of the Pentonville Five, is laid to rest today.
He died on July 20, the day before the 50th anniversary of the arrest of five dockers — Vic Turner, Derek Watkins, Cornelius Clancy, Tony Merrick and Steer — in 1972, which led to threats by the TUC of a general strike and contributed to the subsequent fall of Edward Heath’s Tory government.
Bernie Steer and Vic Turner were two of the main leaders of the powerful Dock Stewards Committee and the government action was seen as an attempt by it to break their influence.
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