The campaign against school segregation in Little Rock in the US in September 1957 challenged a racist society. Ken Olende looks at the events
On the 50th anniversary of the campaign against school segregation in Little Rock, Ken Olende looks at how racism and class solidarity have always pulled the South in different directions
In August 1914 the First World War broke out in Europe. Lenin, the Russian Bolshevik leader, had long argued that a war could create a revolutionary situation in which workers would rise up against the barbarism.
Old headlines have suddenly reappeared over the last few weeks. They refer to the "craziness" of workers going on strike. Sometimes, as with the prison officers, there are suggestions that the workers may have a case, but they are ruining it by "heedless action".
"I hate white vans," said Alek. Around 5am every day, groups of young men and women huddle on street corners in towns across Britain. There they wait for a white van or minibus.
Thousands of eastern European workers are being brutally exploited at work, according to the TUC.
"They call it ‘flexible labour’," says veteran left wing film director Ken Loach. "What that means is its good for the employers but not good for the people who work. And I think this shift from stable employment to casual labour has not been explored significantly yet."
Much of the developed world saw a massive growth in industrialisation and militarisation in the early 20th century.
A US President losing a war abroad and facing an anti-war movement at home, while talking up troop withdrawal, extends his imperial adventure – leading ultimately to his downfall. That is what happened to Republican president Richard Nixon.
It was the sudden eruption at the back of the room upstairs at Sandino’s bar which brought us eventually to the burial ground at Qana. At the edge of the Lebanese village, pictures of each of the 28 victims were displayed on a wall around the canopied space where the graves are laid out in a precise, neat pattern by the spot where the building they were crushed under once stood.
An aerial photo released by the Israeli army to justify their attack on Qana shows a rocket launch site in a field outside the village (bottom).
There has been panic on world financial markets in recent weeks, triggered by the fear that millions of poor Americans will default on their mortgages.
