Philip Green is one of Britain’s richest men. He has an estimated fortune of more than £4 billion. Green runs the Arcadia Group, which includes more than 2,500 branches of the clothes shops Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge and others, as well as the department store BHS.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was murdered 70 years ago by an agent of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin.
In the last twenty years, China’s economy has grown faster than any other country in the world—and it has even managed to grow through most of the current recession.
In a rather lavish room, a student is pointing a stick at a big computer screen showing a Google map of London. "This is the Strand, this is Whitehall," he gestures. "Here’s parliament. We go down here, and here…"
The year 1968 saw student revolt spread all around the world. Everywhere capitalism was modernising itself, and needed a more educated workforce—and so higher education was rapidly expanded.
Britain’s rulers like to present democracy, the welfare state and legal equality as gifts that they have given to ordinary people.
Thousands of students poured out of schools, colleges and universities on Wednesday of last week—the biggest student walkouts since those against war in Iraq in 2003.
The anger felt by students and young people across Britain has become a movement.
The global economic and financial crisis is now well into its fourth year. The desperate plight of the Irish economy, and the strains in the eurozone that it has exposed, show that the crisis has still got a long way left to run.
How should we relate to supporters of the idea that gradual change, reforms to benefit workers, and eventually socialism, comes through parliament?
The nation was entranced last week and all bad news buried. After an eight-year courtship, a blissfully happy Prince William Arthur Philip Louis Windsor—second in line to the British throne and Britain’s future king—and his university sweetheart Kate Middleton, were finally able to share the joy of their engagement.
‘It’s like we’ve gone back to the 1980s. We had the cuts, and now we’ve got the riot." That was the response of one student protester interviewed outside the broken windows of Tory HQ last week.
