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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The task for our movement is to push against the prevailing government tide to ensure that social justice is to the fore, writes Unite leader LEN McCLUSKEY
Unite leader Len McCluskey
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
HAS the Covid-19 crisis really given us no option other than to brace ourselves for a “necessary period of adjustment”?
Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, seems to think so but, as our class knows to its cost, one economist’s adjustment is certain to mean another person’s unemployment.
We’ve been here before, unfortunately, when Margaret Thatcher and her fiscal hawks set about “adjusting” our communities into mass unemployment, with all the attendant social ills from which many may never recover.
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