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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The numbers don't lie: black and Asian workers hit hardest
The country has been plunged into the worst cost-of-living crisis in living memory and pre-existing racial inequality only magnifies the impact, explains ROGER McKENZIE
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
THE Chancellor’s recent Spring Statement could have put in place measures to help people to put food on the table and to heat their homes but instead the Tories chose to prioritise the ideology that being in work is the way out of poverty and until then it’s everyone for themself.
As always, black people are at the sharpest end of poverty. Same as it ever was, as the song goes.
The statistics show that poverty rates for the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities are already higher than other ethnic groups and are clearly set to get worse as the cost-of-living crisis bites.
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