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A LONDON trades council will this weekend celebrate a socialist MP’s principled resignation from government over Britain’s race to join the first world war.
Battersea and Wandsworth TUC unveiled plans for a walking tour of John Burns’s former constituency yesterday — exactly 100 years after the outbreak of the war.
Members will retrace the steps of BWTUC’s founder, beginning at 1pm at his grave in Battersea before a dedication at the union-owned Bread and Roses pub in Clapham at 4pm.
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
STEVE WITHERDEN argues for an immediate revoking all UK arms export licences to Israel
When Patterson and Liston met in the ring in 1962, it was more than a title bout — it was a collision of two black archetypes shaped by white America’s fears and fantasies, writes JOHN WIGHT