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BEN CHACKO appreciates the largest Adelante! conference yet, and how much there was to learn about decolonisation and defiance across Latin America and beyond
RMT senior assistant general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY highlights the priorities for the union’s meeting taking place in York
ALEIDA GUEVARA, daughter of Che, leading a packed hall in singing the Internationale.
Diplomats from Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia assessing the impact of Trump’s trade wars and mass deportations on Latin America. Break-out sessions looking at the continent’s place in black liberation, the new cold war and the rise of the global South.
The annual Adelante! conference, held in the National Education Union’s Hamilton House HQ yesterday, was as inspirational and intellectually stimulating as ever, and larger than ever before — with the audience filling overflow rooms as well as the main Mander Hall for the plenary sessions.
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