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The Tolpuddle Martyrs

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages. Comrades
"I learned that the Obama administration’s support for the Arab Spring uprisings had been hobbled from the start by internal disagreements over the same issues that now define Trump policy — about the nature of the threat from political Islam, about fidelity to autocratic allies like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, and about the difficulty of achieving democratic change in Egypt and the region." The White House and the Strongman See also, It is a pattern
"Today's nostalgia has become an engine of nationalism. It thrives on the economic and cultural insecurities thrown up by globalisation. We look backwards for a safe identity."  — Philip Stephens, Financial Times, 26/07/208
The age of post-truth: Adolf Hitler was a victim Netanyahu: Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews An Arab convinced him to "burn them"