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Labour history
Culture
Glasgow band’s new song demands justice for Scotland’s first working-class martyrs
Left Field staff writers
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The Tenementals’ new single tells the story of the Calton weavers, shot dead by troops in 1787. It backs a campaign to strip army officers of their civic honours and restore the weavers’ neglected graves.
CulturePolitics
Leading Labour: a Radio 4-grade history that stays inside Westminster
Clive Hedges
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From Attlee to Corbyn via Blair's “double shuffle”, Izzy Conn’s podcast series is sharper and better resourced than most left media can afford. Clive Hedges finds a lot to admire, along with a Westminster-shaped blind spot or two.
PoliticsUK
Tyneside’s forgotten uprising: how workers took on the state in 1926
Left Field news desk
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Playwright Ed Waugh takes to Newcastle City Library this month to tell the story the school curriculum leaves out – how Tyneside’s rank and file organised against the state during the General Strike.