The annual commemoration of anti-fascist volunteers who fought fascism in Spain now includes a key contribution from Italian comrades
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Tom Mann: fighting until the end
The final extract from PHIL KATZ’s book looks at the great communist’s last years, which saw him still regularly imprisoned, and finally venerated as ‘the most persuasive mob orator in the three kingdoms’
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Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn laid out a roadmap for peace, justice and equality as they celebrated the legacy of inspirational socialist Tony Benn, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
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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