DIANE ABBOTT looks at the perilous political cul-de-sac Labour finds itself in
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The unluckiest of six unlucky men: a tribute to Hugh Callaghan
One of the Birmingham Six wrongly jailed for IRA pub bombings in 1974, has died aged 93. LOUISE RAW remembers him and his shocking story
Three of the Birmingham Six, the group wrongly convicted for an IRA pub bombing in 1974 and cleared in 1991 by the Court of Appeal.(Left to right) Paddy Hill, Hugh Callaghan and Billy Power
DAVE WARD says the Employment Rights Act can be a platform to build back union power — but only if we can agree a common agenda
A new strategy from the Together Alliance links the fight against racism to the wider struggle over austerity and inequality, says BILL GREENSHIELDS
Linking the General Strike 1926 to the struggles of workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to the Bristol Radical History Festival
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Bristol Radical History Festival, where the defiant tradition of resistance shaped by ordinary people was centre stage
A new wave of austerity is being prepared, and it’s workers who will be expected to pay for it, warns MICHAEL BURKE
WHEN Hugh Callaghan walked up to the front door of his Birmingham home one night in November 1974, he had no idea that what he called his “quiet, ordinary” life was about to be destroyed.
Before Hugh could turn his key, the door flew open, pushed from the inside. He was dragged in by his lapels and thrown up against the wall by a man he’d never seen before, who pressed a gun to his temple.
Callaghan was being arrested by Special Branch; a long, Kafkaesque nightmare was just beginning.
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This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH