In the My Lai massacre in Vietnam you saw the mundane racism of the US troops. On 16 March 1968, they killed between 90 and 130 men, women and children. What is important and notable is that it wasn’t until November 1969 that the story came out.
Some NUJ members have been unhappy about our opposition to the war, saying as journalists our job is to be impartial.
Conventional accounts of Britain’s participation in the Iraq war contend that Tony Blair was a "poodle" to the US.
Unhappy the nation whose death rates are featured only in the Lancet! This British medical journal has become famous recently for suggesting that 100,000 civilians died after the US/British invasion of Iraq, and then that four million people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 1998.
In 1969 the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) seemed to come out of the blue. It was a movement born from a riot after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York.
So it’s our fault. Women suffer discrimination and unequal pay because we make the wrong choices. New Labour tells us choice is everything. Now it claims that if
The last 30 years have seen real gains for women in the workplace. Women are more likely than ever to be in professional jobs, to be working full time and to be well paid.
Winston Churchill made a famous speech 60 years ago this month, heralding the beginning of the Cold War. Ian Birchall looks at its consequences
I've decided to talk today on the title: "Is a patient-led NHS possible?" I went to a conference last October hosted by something called the New Health Network.
Read our new monthly supplement SR, with this issue, with a lead article by Neil Davidson on Islam and the Enlightenment, an interview with jazz legend Courtney Pine and great columnists including Mark Steel.
What is Karl Marx’s best known quote on religion? Many people know that Marx described religion as "the opium of the people". But far fewer know the whole quote: "Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
We tend to think that societies are either capitalist or not, class societies or not. But ignoring the smaller differences means we fail to see one of the most important processes shaping human sociality.
