A visit to a food bank will provide someone whose life has fallen into crisis with three days’ worth of balanced food. These are the basics people need to survive—cereals for breakfast, some fresh fruit and vegetables, and tins of beans, meat and fish.
Between the First and Second World Wars, hundreds of thousands of workers took part in mass left wing sports movements.
This year’s Marxism festival in central London was the biggest and busiest for over a decade. Over 5,000 people came to hear speakers and take part in the debates and discussions on a huge variety of political topics.
The crisis in the eurozone was one of the recurring themes at last week’s Marxism festival.
In the 1930s, the British government set up a series of work camps for the unemployed—supposedly to make them fit enough to work.
The decision to scale down World Pride just days before the event has exposed the dangers of relying on corporate sponsors.
International politics has become a major issue for LGBT campaigners. The Pride London website lists 41 countries where same-sex acts are illegal.
"We see our role as challenging hierarchies over sexualities and gender and creating space inside Palestinian society, where sexuality is currently a taboo subject.
Algeria won independence from France in 1962 after a revolutionary war that cost more than a million Algerian lives. The French had invaded in 1830, but it took them almost two decades to crush Arab and Berber resistance.
Drones, or unmanned aircraft, have become a defining feature of the seemingly endless "war on terror". The missile-loaded planes have been tested and used by the US since before 9/11.
During this summer of royal and sporting spectacles, we seem to be surrounded by the warmed up leftovers of Britain’s patriotic myths.
Revolutions are momentous political battles centred on the actions of millions of ordinary people. They are full of surprises and contradictions—and do not follow any prescribed course or formula.
