Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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Labour needs to set its own agenda rather than follow that of right-wing papers and unrepresentative Jewish ‘leaders,’ says DAVID ROSENBERG
Protesters during the demonstration organised by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the Labour Party headquarters
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
JEWISH families in Dollis Hill, north-west London, woke last Sunday to find they had been the targets of a horrifying anti-semitic attack.
This was not an unpleasant Facebook post or a garbled report of what someone said to someone else about what was said at a meeting, but huge swastikas and nazi SS symbols painted on the pavement outside houses in a street where many Jewish people live, on the window at a bus stop and on street signs.
It was similar to a spate of incidents that targeted Jewish families in another part of north-west London in January 2017.
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