{"id":17309,"date":"2019-02-13T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T11:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:57:42","slug":"remembering-a-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=17309","title":{"rendered":"Remembering a rebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite and the wider labour movement last night (February 12) paid tribute to RAF veteran, author and anti-austerity activist Harry Leslie Smith at a memorial event in London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who came to prominence in the UK after delivering a speech at the Labour Party conference in 2014 in defence of the welfare state, passed\u00c2\u00a0in November in Canada at the age of 95.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers at last night&#8217;s event included Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Labour general secretary Jennie Formby and author and columnist Owen Jones, among others. Harry&#8217;s son John, who worked with him closely in his activism, also spoke.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full event in the video below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wJ7jEDNKgn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite and the wider labour movement last night (February 12) paid tribute to RAF veteran, author and anti-austerity activist Harry Leslie Smith at a memorial event in London. &nbsp; Smith, who came to prominence in the UK after delivering a speech at the Labour Party conference in 2014 in defence of the welfare state, passed\u00c2\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[76,1071,1111],"wps_subtitle":"Unite salutes veteran and anti-austerity activist Harry Leslie Smith at memorial event","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25538,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17309\/revisions\/25538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}