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"I was determined to forge a path out of Poverty"
The working class battle to build a welfare state to prevent another Hitler.
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Concentration camps for refugees seeking asylum in Britain is a fascist solution to the refugee crisis.
In June of 2018, Harry Leslie Smith predicted he would be dead before Christmas. He was 95, and his body was tired from old age and the relentless work…
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A Greatest Generation is being born for the 21st century from the carnage of this immoral war, in Gaza.
Each generation has a moment that defines its time and place in the history of human development My father's working class generation had greatness…
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I don't know if we are too late to stop the construction of fascism as the dominant ideology in our own countries, anymore.
The weather this April felt worse than we deserved. It probably wasn't because even T.S. Eliot called it the cruellest month over a hundred years ago…
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Today it is concentration camps for asylum seekers looking for sanctuary in Britain. Tomorrow it will be you if you are poor, marginalised…
Five people drowned in the English Channel last night. They were refugee claimants who sought safety in Britain. The news media labelled them migrants…
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If you are poor or working class mental illness will shorten your life by decades.
My brother Peter, has been dead for over 14 years now. His death had a profound effect on both my dad and me. His death, along with my mum’s in 1999 was…
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We have lost so much, including our democracy because capitalism insists that poverty is necessary for wealth creation
So much potential, so much happiness, so much living is lost through capitalism's insistence that poverty is necessary for wealth creation. We became…
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"In 1937, I despised the empire, the monarchy and the whole rotten system that held it together."
The Harry’s Last Stand project which I worked on with my Dad for the last 10 years of his life was an attempt to use his life story as a template to…
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