Here I sit in a small earthly paradise above the Athenaeum Bookshop, as writer-in-residence, while a military coup is slowly progressing back home.
Shocking news was released last week that Assistant Commissioner Tariq Ghaffur, Britain’s most senior ranking black police officer, was preparing papers alleging race discrimination against the Metropolitan Police and its commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
Nelson Mandela, jailed for 27 years for fighting the apartheid regime in South Africa, is an inspiration to millions fighting for freedom and justice around the world.
The rising cost of oil is hitting people hard right across the world. By raising the price of all energy, it has a direct effect on people’s ability to heat their homes and on the cost of travelling to and from work.
It is a damning indictment of New Labour that figures released last week showed a leap in child poverty for the second year running.
On 9 August 2006, nine Northern Irish anti-war activists occupied the Derry offices of Raytheon, one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world, and destroyed its computers.
Brazil is Latin America’s largest and most economically powerful nation.
The radical left in Europe has reasons to be cheerful. That was certainly the message from a 1,000 strong rally held in Paris’s Left Bank on Friday of last week organised by the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (LCR).
"Where do we go from here?" is the question being asked by tens of thousands of people on the left, in the movements and in the trade unions after the 1 May elections.
The enormous suffering in the wake of the cyclone that hit southern Burma last week has shocked the world.
Many commentators make a point of directly connecting the scale of the devastation in Burma with the specific failures of the military regime.
It was the day the workers reminded everyone of their power. This was not supposed to happen in Gordon Brown’s Britain. For years we have been told class politics is dead and that we should all accept the wonders of the free market.
