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 mountain we must conquer
Working-class people on both sides of the Brexit divide are crying out for an alternative – which is why the left has to spearhead the project of rupturing with the EU, and build the mass movement for radical change, write ALEX GORDON and PAUL O’CONNELL
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
THE Brexit conjuncture is about so much more than the UK’s membership of the European Union.
The referendum called in 2016 to resolve internal power struggles in the Tory Party exposed a series of fissures in British society and revealed the desire of millions of people for a break with the status quo.
In this sense, the vote to leave the EU is a symptom of a much deeper malaise: namely, the slow, crushing breakdown of neoliberal capitalism.
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