The anti-Muslim pogrom that killed an estimated 2,000 people in the western state of Gujarat in 2002 remains an open wound and an injustice at the heart of Indian politics.
Millions of people across the world have been horrified by the scenes of terror as gun-men attacked hotels, shops, hospitals and railway stations in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) last week leaving more than 170 dead.
Around a million German workers joined mass strikes against the First World War in January 1918, after almost four years of slaughter.
Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher famously said, "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.
In July 1944 the leaders of 44 Allied countries met in a small New Hampshire town called Bretton Woods to discuss how to run the global economy in the post-war world.
The global ruling class is caught in the grip of panic and confusion. Until only recently there were hopes that the world’s newly emerging economies – such as China and others that had undergone rapid growth – could offer a way out.
As the global financial crisis broke one of the countries where ordinary people especially held their breath was Indonesia.
Pakistan is facing economic collapse. Inflation has soared to a 30-year high and in October its currency plunged to an all-time low.
Last year the governing party in Poland proclaimed that it could build a miracle economy.
In an anti-war poem Bertolt Brecht, the German playwright and poet, tells the story of the First World War.
In 1922 socialists from around the world travelled to Russia to discuss and debate the future of the workers' movement.
