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The Crouch End Commune
In 1968 one of the most prominent protests in the UK was at the Hornsey College of Art...
The unemployed under the New Deal
Taken from The New Statesman 17 March 1934
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, mass unemployment affected the industrial state of Pennsylvania more than many others. John Strachey, a leading Marxist intellectual at the time and later a Labour government minister, visited the small town of York to see how those without wages survived. His restrained article showed how debilitating the lack of a proper support system for the unemployed was early in President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
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