The Greater Manchester mayor has shifted left over the years — but his record still shows a tendency to wobble when pressure comes from the right, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
FOR decades, the South has been the Achilles heel of the US labour movement.
While unions took root and thrived in places like the industrial Midwest and the north-east, or in the ports and plants of West Coast states in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, Dixie remained a tough slog.
This is the place where right to work was born over 70 years ago, where reactionary politics have often been the only kind of politics. And where the “colour line” dividing black workers from white ones long defined all aspects of life — including in the workplace. In many ways, it still does.
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