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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]
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
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MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
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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