The police piled into demonstrators from points around the square. Two police vans and a car were driven into the crowd at speed without warning.
Max Levitas Max Levitas is 94. He was a message runner at the Battle of Cable Street.
Capitalism needs workers to survive – but the bosses hate paying for them.
Muhammad Saad Iqbal Madni is just 32 years old but has difficulty walking even with a walking frame. He is dependent on antibiotics and antidepressants and he can’t hear out of his left ear.
Earthquakes are events that expose what is hidden in a society. They are crises that reveal the best and the worst of people.
‘Thirteen years since Labour came to power promising ‘Education, education, education’ we face cuts of more than £1 billion in colleges. Funding for my college is being slashed by £2.5 million. English for Speakers of Other Languages (Esol) and Adult Education are particularly badly hit.
A new biography of Michael Foot, the former Labour leader, lays open the contradictions at the heart of the Labour Party. During his long career Foot was a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), a journalist and pamphleteer, and a cabinet minister.
What’s wrong with the way the media talks about science?
For many people it is common sense that migrant workers drive down wages.
The biggest and longest mass strike in British history ended 25 years ago. Around 165,000 miners struck for a year from March 1984. They were fighting Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s attempts to close pits, sack tens of thousands of workers and smash one of the most militant sections of the working class.
The defeat of the miners’ Strike did not bring an end to class struggle.
