2019 – the year of Brexit?
The New Year will be a year of major political conflict in Britain – one that could spill out onto […]
Labour members are key to stopping Brexit
Editorial As we go to press Theresa May is still trying to blackmail both wings of her party by threatening
Channel refugees need help not hate
By Dave Stockton The Tories and the right wing tabloids are back at work after the midwinter break: stoking up
January 1919: The Spartakist Uprising
In 1919, having stopped the First World War and overthrown the monarchy, German revolutionaries attempted to spread the Russian socialist revolution to Europe by launching an insurrection in Berlin.
Hungary: Protests erupt against Orbán’s ‘Slave Law’
A movement against an attack on working hours has morphed into a sustained challenge to Hungary’s authoritarian ruler
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Sri Lanka: Crisis over?
The constitutional stand-off has been resolved but instability remains the order of the day in 2019
Pakistan: Missing students released
After the release of three students – step up the campaign to end abductions.
Leeds becomes the first UK University to divest from companies complicit with the Israeli military
By Yousef Abdul-Fattah and Evie Russell-Cohen, Leeds Palestine Solidarity Group THE DIVESTMENT decision has been hailed as a win for
Extinction Rebellion Has Opened A New Front In The Fight Against Climate Change
By Chris Close “WE WILL not be led quietly to annihilation by the elites and government… it is not only our
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B is for Bolshevism
Bolshevism is the model of democracy and unity that won the world’s first socialist revolution
Ireland 1968-69: Mass revolt against the Orange state
On 5 October 1968, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) savagely beat a peaceful civil rights march off the streets of Derry. This police riot was flashed over television screens throughout Ireland and Britain that very evening. Among the defenceless marchers was Westminster MP Gerry Fitt, with blood streaming down his face after being truncheoned. Some 96 people needed hospital treatment.
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