Aslef general secretary DAVE CALFE looks at how rail workers and miners stood together against wage cuts 100 years ago – and why the legacy of collective action endures today
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The wheels of the Establishment now turn to preserve the monarchy
Pro-royal sentiment has been in decline for decades — now every available outlet of influence in service of the system is successfully turning public opinion around. NICK WRIGHT considers why the crown remains so important to the powers that be
MANUFACTURED MOMENT: Fawning blanket coverage of the carefully constructed ceremonies has turned the Queen’s death into a national event — and has already undoubtedly changed public opinion on the monarchy itself
As Africa’s progressives aim to consolidate its anti-colonial programme, VIJAY PRASHAD reports on the US getting a military foothold in Ghana
KERRY FLECK explains how the annual event unites thousands in a celebration of workers’ power, culture and collective resistance
The former Nato chief stirred up dark historical undercurrents with his call to cut welfare for military spending, says SOLOMON HUGHES
The life of a modest Norfolk organiser contrasts with the dramatic rise and disappearance of a controversial figure in US labour, says MARK SEDDON
JACK YOUD explains how Salford City Council has taken on rogue landlords and won, setting an example to the rest of the country
NINETY per cent of the people living on these islands have known no other monarch than Elizabeth II.
When she ascended the throne the railways had been recently nationalised and unified — when she died they were lost to public ownership, save some were in the possession of the state-owned railway of Germany from where much of her family originated.
Elizabeth II became queen because her father was king. He became king only because his brother Edward had been forced to abdicate supposedly because the Establishment found his divorcee mistress Wallis Simpson unacceptable as royal consort.
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