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Historic struggles brought to life in Braunston
Narrow boats, strikes, trade unions and wartime female skippers will all be remembered and celebrated at this inimitable annual rally, says PETER FROST
19.01.1930-23.04.2026
Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY
After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
This weekend the canal wharfs of the Northampton village of Braunston will come alive with a huge and colourful gathering of traditional canal narrow boats.
It will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the nationalisation of Britain’s docks, ports, canals and inland waterways by the Labour government in 1947.
Sadly it is also the fifth anniversary of one of the most devious examples of de-nationalisation by Cameron’s Tory government — one that changed British Waterways into the begging bowl wielded now by the Canal and River Trust charity in 2012.
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