What are the roots of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians?
Welsh nationalism today articulates itself through things like popular culture, rugby and language.
Shortly after the 1958 Notting Hill "race riots", the notorious British fascist Oswald Mosley announced that he intended to become MP for the west London neighbourhood.
The new year begins with renewed war and an economic crisis that threatens to turn into a slump. The connections between the two run very deep.
The Great Depression of the 1930s was preceded by the drying up of credit and the development of a trade war.
Anti-Vietnam war poetry reading
The princes, knights, peasants and pilgrims who answered the pope’s call for the First Crusade in 1095 were driven by many different motivations, writes Conor Kostick
"If I don’t go out and fight fascism, I’ll just have to wait and fight it here." That was how John Patsy McEwan explained his decision to leave Dundee to go and fight in the Spanish Civil War – alongside hundreds of others.
The current struggle in Greece is the latest in a long line of battles against different governments. Both the centre-left Pasok party and the right wing New Democracy party have tried to attack workers’ rights – and they have always faced resistance.
Yiannis Theoharis Yiannis Theoharis is a member of the steering committee of the union of workers of the Intracom telecoms company in Athens
