HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
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TOM MANN now threw himself into the issue of unemployment, becoming president of the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement.
It put him in firing sight of the state, which used brutal repression and intimidation against the unemployed. On April 12 1931, he chaired a National United Front Conference.
Given the circumstances and the desperation in the country at unemployment benefit cuts, wage cuts and destitution, the attendance was a large and significant representation of the forces that had managed to survive the defeat of the miners, the capitalist onslaught and the Great Depression.
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