A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
Somewhere under the rainbow
The rainbow has a long association with good causes before thanking NHS workers for their epic efforts against the coronavirus. PETER FROST charts a multicoloured history
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
MATT KERR takes stock of a night of by-elections, where the long repeated warnings for Labour and the political class remain stubbornly unheeded
Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Despite forming most of Britain’s trade union membership, women continue to endure harassment, inequality and minimal support for their sex-based rights, warns VALERIE COULTAS
WITHOUT doubt one of the things that has most cheered me in these generally dark days of the coronavirus has been the thousands of children who have made pictures and posters to thank the heroes of our amazing National Health Service.
Virtually every one of them has used that most inspiring of symbols — the rainbow.
One or two families have gone over the top a wee bit with the rainbow. Some have chalked the entire front of their house in rainbow colours and at least one has enshrined his rainbow thanks by painting the house front with long-lasting rainbow stripes in exterior paint.
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