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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Time to step up pressure through popular, industrial and parliamentary action
People new to political activity and the Labour Party should help strengthen trade unions and trades councils in workplaces, towns and cities as the only guarantee against austerity and the Repeal Bill transferring all EU pro-market, pro-big business legislation into British law, writes ROB GRIFFITHS
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
Many millions of people voted not only against austerity cuts and privatisation in last month’s general election.
They also voted for a positive alternative: for public investment in health, education and housing; for higher taxation of the super-rich and big business; for decent pensions and benefits; and for public ownership of railways, energy and the Royal Mail.
The Communist Party’s decision to stand down its own candidates, call for a Labour vote everywhere and reject any misnamed pro-EU “progressive alliance” with the Lib Dems was vindicated.
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