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Brian Williams: teacher, orator, communist
John Callow salutes the life and struggle of the gifted and persuasive educationalist who oversaw the unification of teaching unions and refoundation of the Communist Party
The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer
October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE
Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken
VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence
MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures
BRIAN WILLIAMS, who died on Monday March 7, was a lifelong communist, trade unionist and progressive teacher and educationalist.
His ebullience, ready humour and love for the good things in life were carefully balanced by the learning that he always wore lightly, a razor-sharp intellect and by his gifts as a highly effective administrator with a care for both nuance and detail.
Born January 3 1947, in Mountain Ash in Mid Glamorgan, Wales, he was raised by a family with strong labour movement values and was greatly influenced by his father and grandfather, who had both been trade union activists, officials and members of the local Labour Party.
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