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George Jerrom: ‘the best general secretary print never had’
Remembering a working-class communist intellectual, internationalist and giant of the union movement in the print industry
George Jerrom
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
GEORGE JERROM, former national officer of the National Graphical Association (NGA) and its successor the Graphical, Paper and Media Union (GPMU), was a leading communist working in print and the print unions.
A long-time member of the Communist Party, secretary of the party’s print advisory committee, his influence and experience earned him support from fellow trade unionists, printers and journalists.
A warm, approachable man with a brilliant ability to dissect problems, he had a major influence on some of print’s defining industrial disputes during the 1980s.
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