How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING
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Keir Hardie set a standard we should aspire to
Keir Hardie showed that left-wing politicians are not there to mediate struggles with the bosses in the hope of moderate improvements, but to fight for, and from inside, the working class, writes BETH WINTER MP
Keir Hardie (1856-1915)
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“GIVEN a strong lead, the Welsh people will place themselves in the van of the socialist movement. Kindly disposed by nature, genial in their relationships one to the other, living justice, and hating oppression, they can easily be roused up to battle.”
Today marks the anniversary of Keir Hardie’s birth which always presents an opportunity to consider his role in the development of socialist politics and working-class representation and consider any lessons that are still relevant today.
The words above were his comments, in his paper the Labour Leader, following his 10-day tour of the South Wales coalfield during the great coal strike of 1898, 125 years ago this summer.
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