In 1872 Karl Marx dashed off a letter applauding plans to publish a French edition of his book Capital in serial form.
Simon Basketter exposes how special British units in Iraq are run by the same man who commanded death squads in Northern Ireland
‘The next stage of improving our public services is personalised services tailored to people’s needs," declared Gordon Brown last week as he joined Tony Blair’s launch of the government’s policy review on the future of public services.
This week sees the British release of Days of Glory, a war film that focuses on a hidden fact of the Second World War – the contribution of hundred of thousands of North African soldiers recruited from France’s colonies, known as "indigènes" in French.
'I started work on Days of Glory five years ago. I chose to film in a realist style because it was the simplest way to do it. For example, there isn't blood dripping everywhere – it's not like that.
Ms Dynamite in Search of Nanny Maroon Niomi Daley, the British hip-hop star better known as Ms Dynamite, travelled to her ancestral land Jamaica to make a TV documentary about slaves who fought back.
Within days of the 1807 anti-slavery act coming into force, British slave traders were already deploying a number of ruses to circumvent it.
"When Wilberforce came forward, public attention became directed to the matter.
William Wilberforce is presented as "the man who freed the slaves". Often this is done in an incredibly patronising way that removes or diminishes the role of the British mass movement and, above all, the struggles of slaves themselves.
Racism as we know it today developed during the Atlantic slave trade. In the 17th century it emerged in its roughest form in the mouths of the plantation owners who wanted to justify their treatment of the slaves.
Slavery was not a one-off event – a single horror confined to the 18th century or simply to Africa.
