British oil multinational BP has been accused by activists of supporting a company responsible for polluting areas across Russia.
Oil exploitation 1795-1925 Monarchy rules Iran in alliance with Shia Muslim clerics, but both are weakened under a modernisation drive led by European-educated intellectuals.
Charles Darwin was one of the 19th century’s greatest thinkers, yet he was profoundly disturbed by the implications of his ideas. He delayed for some years before publishing in 1859 his greatest work, The Origin of Species, in which he outlined his theory of evolution.
Britain’s rulers have reason to be grateful to Horatio Nelson for his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar 200 years ago this week, a victory that would be decisive for the creation of the British Empire.
Who Shot the Sheriff? — Alan Miles’s excellent new film charting the history of the Rock Against Racism and Anti Nazi League movements of the 1970s — is set to go on tour in January, sponsored by the Amicus union.
Rock Against Racism (RAR) started in 1976 when myself and a few friends wrote a letter to the NME attacking Eric Clapton for making racist comments. That letter brought a massive response from the public.
By December 1905, Russia was gearing itself up for a full-scale counter-revolution.
What is it about a government that provokes a conservatively minded people to wholesale revolt?
Tell It Like It Is has come out of the crisis facing school students, particularly black children, in our education system. African-Caribbean boys are four times more likely to be excluded from school than their peers. A recent Joseph Rowntree report suggests that that in some areas they are 15 times more likely to be excluded.
The dominant examination at the end of compulsory schooling in England is the GCSE, the General Certificate of Secondary Education. In most subjects, GCSE examinations are now "tiered" — that means that instead of sitting a single common examination paper the entrants are separated into different papers, depending on their teachers’ assessment of their chances of success.
No Problem I am not de problemBut I bare the bruntOf silly playground tauntsAn racist stunts,I am not de problemI am a born academicBut dey got me on de runNow I am branded athletic,I am not de problemIf you give I a chanceI can teach yu of TimbuktuI can do more dan dance,I am not de problemI greet yu wid a smileYu put me in a pigeon holeBut I am versatile.
Recent events in southern Iraq — in particular the "rescue" of two British SAS special forces officers in Basra — have highlighted how the US led occupation is losing its grip even in so called stable areas of the country.
