DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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HENRY FOWLER, national co-ordinator for General Strike 100, continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations by joining campaigners and trade unionists in Brighton for the unveiling of a new blue plaque and a full day of commemorative events marking the centenary of the ‘Battle of Lewes Road’
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ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the relationship between law and the humanities
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Sorry, it's just that this column thought it had been suffering problems with its hearing of late. A kind of all-encompassing deafness followed by an annoying ringing in the ears that builds up to intolerable levels.
Then it realised that it was just the sound of blatant self-censorship by the bold members of the fourth estate quickly followed by the usual execrably hagiographic revisionism and the sound of thousands of eyes being nonchalantly averted from the glaring truth.
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