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And that's a rap: delegates pack Morning Star fundraising social at Scottish TUC
Arts editor Angus Reid performs at the Morning Star’s Scottish TUC social
AN OVERFLOWING Bank Bar in Dundee enjoyed music, poetry and politics at the Morning Star’s Scottish TUC social on Tuesday night.
Delegates unwound as Morning Star supporters serenaded the pub from the open mic, singing labour movement classics and songs of their own. A star turn was an impromptu rap delivered by the Morning Star’s arts editor Angus Reid.
International greetings came from the Cuban embassy’s first secretary for political affairs, Pablo Arturo Ginarte Sampedro, who spoke of the long tradition of solidarity with Cuba in the Scottish labour movement and the threat posed to the socialist island by Donald Trump.
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