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Max Mosley: multimillionaire and fascist
by PETER FROST
Max Mosley (right) acting as election agent for Walter Hesketh (left), the British Union Movement candidate in the in 1961 Moss Side parliamentary by-election
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
WHEN I was asked to write an obituary of Max Mosley for our paper, I thought seriously about whether we should use our valuable space for such an article.
However when I saw the rest of the media singing the praises of the man as someone who had made some £15 million as the champion of Formula One motor racing and only briefly mentioned in passing that his father had been Oswald Mosley, the pre-war leader of Britain’s fascist Blackshirts, I knew what had to be done.
What none of them mentioned was that Max Mosley remained a fascist his whole life.
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