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The times they are a-changin'
DAVE BANGS sees all socialist notions long gone from farming communities overridden by mega farms and agricultural monopolies
TIMES GONE BY: Ponnies fro sale, Isaac and Chris Evans at the New Barn farm in USK, 1988
[Dave Bangs]
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
The Claudia Sheinbaum government is no pushover and is holding firm despite US abuses of the relationship, says DAVID RABY
As we approach the grim anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, SIMON BARROW sounds the alarm over the dangerous and murderous direction our government is heading
The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
ISAAC EVANS has gone now. He died in 2006.
Yet when I visit my mate Chris, his son, who now runs the farm alone, his dad is alive in my mind. How could he not be? He was such a big presence, with his beard and his cap, and at one stage a dowsing stick, talking the hind leg off a donkey, as he always did. And how often do you meet a socialist farmer?
When I recently visited Chris I asked him to tell me how many socialist farmers he knew in this rolling Welsh border country east of Pontypool.
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