The darkness crumbles away. It is the same old druid Time as ever, Only a live thing leaps my hand, A queer sardonic rat, As I pull the parapet’s poppy To stick behind my ear. Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew Your cosmopolitan sympathies. Now [...]
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Under a sustained campaign by students and workers, the University of Manchester has been forced to retreat on plans to undermine the living wage and conditions for caterers. UNISON members backed by students, Unite and UCU won a comprehensive victory [...]
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The Socialist Network condemns the series of summary suspensions of Labour Party members on the charge of anti-semitism and calls for them to be lifted immediately. We welcome the lifting of Momentum vice-chair Jackie Walker’s suspension at the end of [...]
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SHALL you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you! The world’s life hangs on your right [...]
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Is there for honest PovertyThat hings his head, an' a' that;The coward slave-we pass him by,We dare be poor for a' that!For a' that, an' a' that.Our toils obscure an' a' that,The rank is but the guinea's stamp,The Man's the [...]
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And though ye bind your noble prey in thongs and fetters hard and fast, And though ye lead her out to die beneath the fortress wall at last, And though she lie beneath the sod, whose fair green grass at dawning red The [...]
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