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Herbert Morrison
was moderate and worrisome
He had an appropriate grandson:
Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson
could not get a handle on
The passionate, radical, principled and quarrelsome:
rather like his grandfather, Herbert Morrison
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Emmeline Pankhurst
among feminists, ranked first
Until she ruined her story
by becoming a Tory
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Henry the Third
was somewhat absurd
He endorsed the Great Charter
and ignored it thereafter
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Simon de Montfort
got off on the wrong foot
He persecuted the Jewish
but won the Battle of Lewes
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This article was published in RMT News, September 2020.
By Janine Booth, Chair of RMT National Disabled Members’ Advisory Committee
One hundred years ago, two hundred and fifty blind people from across the UK marched from Newport, Manchester and Leeds to London in protest at poverty and poor working conditions.
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I have contributed this short article to Black History Month activities where I work.
Poems of the Harlem Renaissance
- recommended by Janine Booth
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Janine's poetic turn at the 2020 online celebration ofthe 1911 Llanelli railway strike.
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Freeborn John was one
Coronavirus is not:
A great leveller
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I spoke with my dad (pictured) about his memories of the 1945 general election ...
75 years ago when I was seven, I experienced the first of 22 general elections in my life.
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Also published in Solidarity newspaper.
One hundred years ago, on the very first Remembrance Day, 11 November 1919, the Daily Herald, a socialist newspaper, published this article on its front page.
