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Another woman hidden from history
Last month Irish president Michael D Higgins was at the TUC’s Congress House in London to pay tribute to an amazing, but little-known woman. PETER FROST was there.
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
Eva Gore-Booth, an Irish aristocrat’s daughter, was born in May 1870 in a huge mansion at Lissadel in beautiful County Sligo. The poet WB Yeats knew her as a young girl and described her as a gazelle.
Her aristocratic upbringing saw her sharing her time between the Irish countryside and her father’s Kensington house where she and her sister Constance attended grand balls and came out as debutantes being presented to Queen Victoria.
So it is hard to believe that in 1913, aged 43, she was working as a pit brow lass at one of the pits of the Lancashire coalfield and organising those women into a trade union. These women did the back-breaking work of sorting the stones out of the coal that had been brought to the surface. They worked long hours for very poor wages.
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