David Oluwale was last seen alive on the night of 17 April 1969, being beaten by two police officers in Leeds.
The outcome of the five days of intense fighting in Barcelona in May 1937 – the "civil war within the civil war" – was a decisive defeat for the revolution that had begun in July 1936.
The World Social Forum in Kenya earlier this year was marked by a resurgence of interest in the ideas of Frantz Fanon, a thinker whose works have for many years been neglected.
Gordon Brown, who is currently touring the country in the run-up to his anointment as Labour leader, last week outlined his "vision" for housing.
Many people were shocked when Margaret Hodge, the New Labour minister and MP for Barking in east London, called this week for "indigenous" families to be given priority over "new migrants" when it comes to allocating council housing.
"A flood of Romanian gypsy children has left a British town facing financial crisis," screamed the Daily Mail last week. "Roma children flood into Slough," said the BBC.
Barcelona, 3 May 1937, three o’clock in the afternoon – three lorry loads of police and Republican Assault Guards force their way into the central telephone exchange, beginning what became known as the "May Events".
Much was made last week of the politicians of Northern Ireland coming together apparently to bring peace. But 100 years ago, there was a far more inspiring and grassroots example of people coming together in Ireland, which is rarely written about in the mainstream press.
In May 1937 bloody street fighting broke out in Barcelona. This marked a turning point in the revolution that had erupted in response to the military rising ten months previously.
Health workers Over a million workers for the NHS – Europe’s biggest employer – have been offered a 2.5 percent "pay rise" this year.
Are you finding it more and more difficult to make ends meet? Does it seem like your pay has gone before you’ve had a chance to spend it? Have you had to put more on your credit card, or increase the size of your overdraft?
