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Terry Fields and the History of the Militant in Liverpool (1992): Documentary and Reviews

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Suffragette Militancy

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Bollywood and the Hinduja Brothers

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“We Are Many” and the Fight-Back Against Austerity

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  • Lobby in Defence of Leicester General Hospital's Intensive Care Unit
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Recent Posts

  • Why “The Left Against Brexit” Pamphlet is Wrong
  • John Pilger’s Shortcomings
  • The Rise of Islamophobic Anti-Semitic Hate Speech
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  • Prison Protest in Leicester
  • Trigger Ballots and Mandatory Reselection
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  • Keith Vaz May Want to End His Life in Yemen, But Is He Serious About Stopping the Saudi War That is Destroying Yemen?
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  • The Same Tories Who Are Destroying the NHS, Laughably Claim to Have Invented It
  • Leicester City Council is Selling Off More Public Land to Private Property Developers
  • Jeremy Corbyn States that Britain Will Be “As Well-off, or Better-Off” if Labour Was In-Charge of Brexit Negotiations
  • BBC Radio Leicester Reports on the General Hospital Controversy
  • Lobby in Defence of Leicester General Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit
  • Lowkey Rocks the Highfields Summer Festival
  • Is Leicester Failing Its Partially-Sighted People?
  • Margaret Hodge Must Be Booted Out of the Labour Party for “Trivializing the Memory of the Nazi Holocaust”

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