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The Crouch End Commune
- Tom Nairn
- 08 May 2008
In 1968 one of the most prominent protests in the UK was at the Hornsey College of Art...
Adolf Hitler will give you - ?
- C M Lloyd
- 01 May 2008
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Taken from The New Statesman 6 May 1933
The unemployed under the New Deal
- John Strachey
- 24 April 2008
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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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Campaign report
- J B Priestley
- 27 March 2008
Taken from The New Statesman 29 March 1958
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's first big march took place over Easter weekend in 1958. Thousands walked from central London to the Aldermaston nuclear facility in Berkshire in protest at the existence of nuclear bombs. The creation of the largest mass movement in British history since the Chartists had been inspired by an article in the New Statesman the previous November. In this follow-up piece, J B Priestley reported on CND's astonishing growth.
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Hedgehogs and foxes
- V S Pritchett
- 19 March 2008
Taken from The New Statesman 20 January 1978
Pritchett was a distinguished book reviewer and essayist at the New Statesman for more than 30 years. In this article, he reviewed the first of four volumes that brought together the scattered writings of Sir Isaiah Berlin. The book dealt with many of the influential
19th-century Russian intelligentsia – most notably Turgenev, Bakunin and Herzen – whose opinions on life and politics Berlin sought to explain to a western audience.
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Let's ban retirement
- Donald Gould
- 13 March 2008
Taken from The New Statesman 29 March 1968
The problem of what to do with old people is not a new one for policymakers. Thirty years ago, the New Statesman's medical correspondent, Donald Gould, wrote this wry article on the situation of the "silver knobs". In his opinion, there were only two ways to deal with their plight and save public money - compulsory euthanasia for everybody once they reached the age of 60, or letting the old carry on in paid work for as long as they wanted.
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