Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
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WHEN the six poor Tolpuddle farm workers met to form a trade union in 1834, little did they know how their story of injustice would continue to resonate with modern-day workers around the world.
The tough lives of James Brine, James Hammett, George Loveless, George’s brother James Loveless, George’s brother in-law Thomas Standfield, and Thomas’s son John Standfield were all too common for the average agricultural worker. Rooted in grim poverty and deep inequality, they deserved much better.
So when they organised to prevent further pay cuts, they knew the landowner would resist.
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