HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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IN THE centenary year of the murder of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg I can only speculate on what she would have made of the situation for working-class people and particularly women in today’s Tory Britain.
Certainly she would have understood why so many working-class people feel totally disenfranchised and removed from the politics of Westminster.
And without doubt she would have seen the dangers presented by the populism, nationalism and racism that have characterised the media debate around Brexit.
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