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Leninism lives! And so does MacDonaldism…
ANDREW MURRAY turns an eye to one hundred years ago, when, as Lenin died, the first Labour leadership entered government in Britain
The President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, W.T Cosgrave, The British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Sir James Craig at Chequers
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As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
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Amid national economic decay and with a lack of coherent left-wing responses, far-right narratives on women’s safety and immigration have taken root in former Labour heartlands. The WOMEN’S LIBERATION ALLIANCE warns that only a renewed politics rooted in an understanding of class, race and sex can stem the rise of authoritarianism
AS LENIN left the world, Ramsay MacDonald entered Downing Street. The first workers’ state lost its leader, and Britain gained its first Labour government on the same day, a century gone Sunday last.
One could write the story of the 20th-century workers’ movement through that moment. A comrade sent me a picture of hundreds of workers standing in silent homage at the news of Lenin’s passing. In Poplar.
Ramsay MacDonald’s memorial was the ruin of the movement he had built, its dreams traded in for the friendship of Lady Londonderry and the applause of the bankers — the “greatest betrayal in the political history of the country,” in Clem Attlee’s words.
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