US-based labour and social movements authors and organisers Robert Ovetz and James Tracy interview DANIEL GROSS about his new book, Unions of Our Own: Eight Building Blocks to Change Work and the World
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A remarkable triumph for popular protest
KATE HUDSON looks back 40 years to a landmark event of the peace movement – with parallels for the world of today
Countering forcefully the threat of global nuclear conflagration
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JOHN CALLOW introduces the work of Geoffrey Trease, who placed ordinary people at the centre of his historical fiction for children, creating adventurous stories to inspire the possibilities of social change
The Isle of Wight’s Victorian holiday boom drew visitors from across Europe, including the founders of scientific socialism, writes KEITH FLETT
The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
Unless ministers match reform with investment, the profession and the people it serves will continue to bear the cost, says KATE RAMSDEN
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
FORTY years ago, on October 22 1983, CND held the largest demonstration in its history with 400,000 people in Hyde Park.
The reason? West European leaders had decided to deploy new US missiles that would likely lead to nuclear war in Europe. British prime ministers — first Callaghan in 1979, then Thatcher — agreed to take cruise missiles, at Greenham Common and Molesworth bases, from 1983.
The deployment of these missiles — and Pershing missiles elsewhere in western Europe — meant that Europe would be the nuclear battleground in a war between the US and Soviet Union, which seemed ever closer.
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