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Resistance never sleeps: confronting fascism’s long shadow over history
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
Demonstrators during an anti-racism protest organised by Stand Up to Racism, in George Square, Glasgow. Picture date: Saturday August 10, 2024
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
THERE was a moment, in my note-taking at the Bristol Radical History Festival, when I feared that part of this report might be scooped up by the current government, and judged to be an excellent idea.
The presentation in question was on British labour camps, which existed for a decade from 1929, held men in grim conditions, and had them doing hard labour — or risk losing their benefits.
This, to give some important context, was favoured by the Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.
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Anti-fascists from around the world will soon be travelling to Spain to commemorate the International Brigades and walk in the footsteps of the bravest of their generation, writes LYNNE WALSH
