21/03/2023
It is with sadness that we report that our Editor in Chief and the creator of this paper passed peacefully on 28th February 2023.
With Alistair's passing, our paper closes.
This page will remain open for notices of condolences, reminiscences and for news for a planned book of The Best of Clarion which we are looking to prepare with family. More news on that after the summer.
Please feel free to share your photos of political actions you took with the Clarion, Alistair or our friends, fellow travellers.
We close with our principles and values firmly in mind, written by Alistair and unmoveable as ever...
- We totally oppose policies and practices based on the notion that unfettered private enterprise and the pursuit of wealth are the motive forces in our society.
- We support a collective view of our society, based on ideas of mutual responsibility, common ownership and public service.
- Our idea of society is one in which people can work together for the common good, whether at nieghbourhood level or on a wider basis. This is an ideal that we equate with the aspirations of Socialism.
- We press for a better deal for the people of the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley, as elsewhere, and try to reflect their aspirations and their history.
- We support equality of opportunity in education, the elimination of unemployment, the right to organise at the work place, the protection and development of the NHS and the welfare state, the abolition of nuclear weapons, the protection of our environment and a society in which all can enjoy security in their lives.
- Furthermore, we believe that change is only possible through open debate and exchange of ideas, in which all who share a common sense of purpose can take part.
RIP Alistair Graham May 1936-February 2023.
If you'd like to remember Alistair, then donations can be made in his name to Amnesty International via https://alistairgraham.muchloved.com/
