Write off socialism at your peril; Many of the issues which first spawned the fight for social justice remain.(Features)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: April 24, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: MARIO BASINI

Once, the Valleys of South Wales rang with its slogans. Socialism's red flags, confidently fluttering in the wind of change, brought hundreds of thousands of workers out of their coal mines and ironworks and spilling on to the streets to fight, often with their fists, for justice and a better way of life.

The dynamics of the Industrial Revolution had given South Wales a confident, expansive society, but one dominated by the extremes of gre...

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