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The spirit of Greenham rises again
Lynne Walsh chats to ‘Greenham woman’ SUE LENT about the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking anti-nuclear action, and women’s recreation today of the legendary march from Cardiff to the Berkshire missile base
Sue Lent with the late Mary Crofton at the end of the 1983 Star March to Greenham
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
A HAPPY band of formidable women are going for a walk together over the next week: the 120 miles from Cardiff city centre to Greenham Common.
They’re aiming to follow the route set 40 years ago by trailblazers, anti-nuclear campaigners who resolved to take on the might of the US and British governments.
The US government wanted to site its cruise missiles on British soil, and in 1980 the British defence secretary Francis Pym told the Commons that RAF Greenham Common would be the main operating base.
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