‘I was arrested on 30 November 1974. I was dragged from my bed at home in Northern Ireland. I was handcuffed and thrown in the back of an army personnel carrier with squaddies in.
Members of the Labour Party are about to elect their new leader.
The events of Black September, which saw the slaughter of thousands of Palestinians, laid bare the treachery of the Arab rulers—and their refusal to use their power to help liberate Palestine.
‘Jordan has seen one of the great national uprisings of modern times. The overwhelming majority of the population, led by the guerrilla organisations and the units of the popular militia, have fought to overthrow Hussein’s reactionary government.
The media is saturated with celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the "Spitfire summer" of 1940.
Few events expose the moral bankruptcy of capitalism more starkly than the response of our leaders to "natural disasters". This summer the people of Pakistan have suffered floods that have destroyed whole villages and towns, leaving millions of the world’s poorest prey to hunger and disease.
They call it "the storm" here, like there never was any other storm—but also like you don’t say the other word, just in case.
Seventy years ago this week an agent of Russian dictator Joseph Stalin murdered the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky by smashing his skull with an ice pick.
There’s a great myth about the way work is organised today—that workers are powerless because employment is unstable. They say that if anyone dares to challenge the employers, the firms will disappear to another country where wages are lower and workers more flexible.
We need a mass movement of workers, public ownership and workers’ control to create a socialist society.
Someone recently asked me, what do you do after you storm parliament?
