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IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
A salute to the comrades of music and struggle
Chris Searle reviews 4 Blokes by the Louis Moholo-Moholo Quartet (Ogun)
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
HENRY FOWLER outlines the GFTU’s new 2026-27 education programme and argues that investing in trade union education is essential to building worker power, developing leaders and strengthening collective action
We need a government that invests in saving lives not destroying them, argues SOPHIE BOLT
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The public inquiry is the result of more than a decade of determined campaigning. Now, those who fought for justice want the full story of government involvement and police conduct to be told, says KATE FLANNERY
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
It is now 40 years since Hazel Miller and her husband, the great Johannesburg-born bassist Harry Miller, founded Ogun Records.
Hazel says that the Ogun label was necessary “to get this music out there,” to enable listeners everywhere to hear this South African sound that was so central to the people’s struggles against apartheid and the creation of a new South Africa.
“None of the big commercial labels were interested,” she says. “We needed Ogun so much to keep alive the sounds of our friends in exile from South Africa and their friends over here.
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