JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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What can we learn from the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919?
ROGER McKENZIE draws inspiration from the black self-organisation of the early 20th century
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The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
LIKE many people in the depths of the winter I have begun to look forward to the warm days of the summer.
But looking ahead this year I am reminded that it will be the 125th anniversary of the “Red Summer” of 1919.
The summer of that year was as red in Britain as it was on the other side of the Atlantic in the United States.
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