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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Today’s thirst for change should be something we can harness as a movement
A new, revived left politics deserves a new trade unionism, writes TIM ROACHE
GMB general secretary Tim Roache
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
TODAY working people from across the country will come together in our capital.
There will be banners, bands, speeches and hundreds of thousands marching through the streets, but most importantly there will be a collective voice demanding change.
The status quo is not working for working people. Austerity has spectacularly failed. People are so sick of the way the world is that we’re leaving the European Union. Voters would rather tear down the entire system than carry on as we are.
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Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
ROS SITWELL reports from the Morning Star conference on ‘Race, Sex and Class Liberation’ last weekend