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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
National Guards accost black men on the streets
during the ‘Red Summer’ disturbances, Chicago, Illinois, 1919
[Chicago History Museum / Public Domain]
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
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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