A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Rail workers and WWI
Brian Denny looks at the lasting effects of the first world war on rail workers
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
One May evening in 1916 a National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) member, whose name is lost to history, was walking along a station platform on the outskirts of London when he noticed a hastily scribbled note.
It had been thrown from the window of a train heading for Southampton by one of 17 conscientious objectors (COs), conscripts who were refusing to fight in the trenches of World War I, warning that they were being taken to France to face military discipline and possibly the firing squad.
The quick-thinking NUR member contacted the No-Conscription Fellowship which was mounting a vigorous campaign against the punishment of COs, known as conchies, following the introduction of the Military Service Act the previous March which brought in conscription for the first time in British military history.
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