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Uncle Bert, a Bevin Boy who kept the home fires burning
PETER FROST remembers his uncle Bert on an important working-class anniversary
The loading station at Ollerton colliery
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
IN THIS season of goodwill and family get-togethers I am going to introduce you to my Uncle Bert. Sadly Bert died in 2012 but I will always remember him and the stories he told me about his exciting life.
Bert met my mum’s sister Phill at the legendary Hammersmith Palais. They were both competition-winning ballroom dancers. He married Phill and became my uncle.
When I started to get interested in left-wing politics in my teens, Bert could always be relied on to take my side in family discussions. He was a solid working-class hero and a staunch trade unionist till the day he died. He abhorred wars and hated bosses, indeed any kind of authority.
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