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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Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
The PM leaves office having squandered Labour’s electoral mandate and alienated its grassroots. He will not be missed, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
IT WAS Lenin who long ago sketched out the necessary conditions for fundamental radical change.
He pointed to the fact that experience had shown that it was not enough for those who were exploited “to realise the impossibility of living in the old way” — it was critical that the exploiters “should not be able to live and rule in the old way.”
This would mean that the elite would have to suffer a “governmental crisis which draws even the most backward masses into politics” and a “hundredfold increase in the size of the working and oppressed masses — hitherto apathetic — who are capable of waging the political struggle.”
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