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Max Mosley: multimillionaire and fascist
by PETER FROST
Max Mosley (right) acting as election agent for Walter Hesketh (left), the British Union Movement candidate in the in 1961 Moss Side parliamentary by-election
As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
WHEN I was asked to write an obituary of Max Mosley for our paper, I thought seriously about whether we should use our valuable space for such an article.
However when I saw the rest of the media singing the praises of the man as someone who had made some £15 million as the champion of Formula One motor racing and only briefly mentioned in passing that his father had been Oswald Mosley, the pre-war leader of Britain’s fascist Blackshirts, I knew what had to be done.
What none of them mentioned was that Max Mosley remained a fascist his whole life.
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