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“THESE are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote in December 1776 during the war of independence with the British, when the American colonists’ morale was at a low ebb.
Trevor Griffiths
His call for a renewal of the radical spirit is one many would recognise today and an event to celebrate Paine’s birthday takes place on the 27th of this month at the Working Class Movement Library (WCML) in Salford.
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