The Love Music Hate Racism carnival in Barnsley this weekend will be everything that the British National Party despises. It will be a celebration of all that is brilliant about multicultural Britain.
More than 400 black, white and Asian people of all ages packed into a Love Music Hate Racism gig in Leeds last month.
The experience of the Russian Bolsheviks shows that parliament can be a useful platform for revolutionaries.
In our contemporary world where the visual message trumps the written word, photos of those killed or wounded by US/NATO actions rarely are published. They generate too much discomfort. But reports by journalists like Lynsey Addario and Alex Linschoten show the reality of what has been happening
In 2001 the US and its allies cited the liberation of women as one of the justifications for the invasion in Afghanistan. However, almost a decade later the war rages on and the protection and promotion of women’s rights continue to be neglected. Historically war erodes the rights of women and girls and in a state which has a socio-cultural history of considering women to be subordinate to men, the war in Afghanistan has further exasperated the ill treatment of women. Sonali Kolhatkar co-director of the Afghan women’s mission stated that: "waging war does not lead to the liberation of women anywhere. Women always disproportionately suffer the effects of war, and to think that women’
Britain is a land built by migrants. After all, there was no one inhabiting these islands 50,000 years ago, and for most of human history there were no international borders.
The Jobbik party grabbed 17 percent of the vote in the first round of the Hungarian general election, in a chilling warning to the rest of Europe. It came third with 842,306 votes – only just behind the ruling Socialist Party.
Phil Piratin won Stepney’s Mile End seat in east London for the Communist Party (CP) in 1945 with over 5,000 votes.
The British National Party (BNP) has exploited the issue of housing to get a foothold in Barking. It says that Barking & Dagenham council prioritises immigrants for council housing, and that this stops other people getting a decent place to live.
Margaret Thatcher’s election in 1979 marked a turning point for housing in Barking—and the rest of Britain as well.
The BNP claimed that the Labour Party was giving Africans grants of up to £50,000 to buy houses in Barking & Dagenham.
