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Brian Williams: teacher, orator, communist
John Callow salutes the life and struggle of the gifted and persuasive educationalist who oversaw the unification of teaching unions and refoundation of the Communist Party
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
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The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
BRIAN WILLIAMS, who died on Monday March 7, was a lifelong communist, trade unionist and progressive teacher and educationalist.
His ebullience, ready humour and love for the good things in life were carefully balanced by the learning that he always wore lightly, a razor-sharp intellect and by his gifts as a highly effective administrator with a care for both nuance and detail.
Born January 3 1947, in Mountain Ash in Mid Glamorgan, Wales, he was raised by a family with strong labour movement values and was greatly influenced by his father and grandfather, who had both been trade union activists, officials and members of the local Labour Party.
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