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Midsummer magic
EXHUBERANCE AND DARING: Bonfire at the Saint John festivities in Madrid’s neighbourhood of Fuenlabrada
[Pic: Ayuntamiento de Fuenlabrada/flickr/CC]
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
STANDING around at Stonehenge. Smoking too much weed. Bonkers dancing. That’s one way of celebrating the solstice. Linking hands in a ring on a medieval mound in a municipal park and singing circle songs as the cloudy grey dawn lightens is another. All good.
I’ve learnt better ways to do it, though — for myself.
It’s three weeks now since Midsummer, but I’m still enjoying the memories of one of the best and longest I’ve celebrated… so no apologies for this piece, despite its late timing.
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