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The labour movement must build solidarity at a ‘time of monsters’, warns BFAWU president
Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage launches his General Election campaign in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, June 4, 2024

THE labour movement must build solidarity at a “time of monsters” at home and abroad, the bakers’ union’s Ian Hodson warned today.

The BFAWU president blasted racist rhetoric from hard-right figurehead Nigel Farage, Israel’s killing of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and urged resistance against inequality and injustice.

Mr Hodson spoke on the opening day of the union’s annual conference in Staffordshire, during which delegates unanimously endorsed a motion bearing the words of late socialist MP Tony Benn: “If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.”

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