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Remembering the dead and fighting for the living

There are only two things that stand between workers and the musket’s volley today - the ballot and the union, asserts MATT KERR

Police confront pickets at Gascoigne Wood drift mine near Selby

I WOBBLED at the top of a 5m ladder with a tin of white paint dangling alongside me, paint brush in hand and an elderly woman pulling faces through the window.

“How did I get here?”

Jimmy held on to the foot of the ladder. I had known him for all of a week since we moved into the “upper cottage” of the four-in-a-block next door. Within hours of arriving, we’d noticed Lily waving from her kitchen window opposite ours, pulling faces and laughing.

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