In the aftermath of Anders Behring Breivik’s murderous rampage, Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins wrote, "The Norwegian tragedy is just that, a tragedy. It does not signify anything and should not be forced to do so.
‘The council needs to stop seeing us as objects and start seeing us as people." So says Mary Ann McCarthy, a Traveller who is facing eviction from Dale Farm in Essex.
Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers are legally recognised as ethnic groups and covered under the Race Relations Act.
Basildon Council says it has to evict around 400 people from Dale Farm because the land is greenbelt.
People are organising to defend Travellers at Dale Farm from eviction which could take place any time after 31 August.
We showed last week that Spain in 1936 was a country on the brink of revolutionary change. Tragically, forces that the revolutionaries believed were on their side extinguished this flame of hope.
The phrase "If you want to know the time, ask a policeman" is informative. It has nothing to do with the police being helpful. It came from their reputation for stealing the watches of Victorian drunks.
Millions in Egypt came back onto the streets on 8 July to demand justice for the families of the martyrs killed during the uprising, and a purge of the interior ministry.
Spain’s workers successfully threw back an attempted military coup against a radical government in 1936. Their heroic acts were the beginning of three years of bloody fighting for the soul of Spain.
One night in 1972, six men were arrested while burgling the Democratic Party campaign headquarters in the Watergate apartment complex, Washington DC.
Ten years ago huge anti-capitalist protests in the Italian city of Genoa shook the world’s leaders.
