In John Tennant’s evocative book of black and white photographs, The Golden Age of Football: Extraordinary Images from 1900 to 1985, there is a captured moment from inside the legendary Liverpool boot room, taken in May 1980.
At the beginning of August, at the height of Israel’s brutal military assault on Lebanon, Tony Blair gave a widely reported speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council where he warned of "an arc of extremism now stretching across the Middle East".
Saadi Youssef is one of Iraq’s best known poets. His work is renowned throughout the Middle East and beyond. He has translated numerous writers into Arabic, including George Orwell, Federico Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman. Saadi fled Iraq in 1979 after Saddam Hussein tightened his hold on power. He now lives just outside London.
It was the final day of the war, just before the United Nations (UN) ceasefire was due to kick in, and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert had a plan that he thought would snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
I am being shown around what is left of the Liban Lait plant by Deeb Mounzer, a mechanical engineer and one of the union reps at the factory.
The road to Aita al-Shaab is littered with victims of the brutal power of Israeli military might. For mile after mile, houses are in ruins and the sides of the roads are littered with wrecked cars, many hit by rockets or strafed by helicopter gunships.
Never let it be said that Hizbollah are not media savvy. Rapidly produced banners placed around the ruins of the village of Dhayiya make their views of Israel’s sponsors very clear. "The New Middle Beast" proclaims one - a reference George Bush’s recent statements. "Extremely Accurate Targeting" reads another, attacking Israel’s claims that their bombings were somehow "surgical" - the banner in question being sat in the middle of a completely demolished street
JR: Can you give us your evaluation of the outcome of the Israeli attack on Lebanon?
An emergency meeting of the Cairo Conference organising committee last weekend called for two key solidarity actions with the people of Lebanon.
Socialist Worker’s reporting team in south Lebanon, Simon Assaf and Guy Smallman, travelled alongside the refugees as they flooded back to their homes early last week. They document the mass movement in the articles making up our Lebanon Report through this week’s paper.
The victory for the resistance in Lebanon is a major blow against both Israeli aggression and George Bush’s plans for a "new Middle East".
The fall of the Edward Heath’s Tory government during the winter of 1973-4 is the most exciting period in recent British history.
