EUGENE DEBS was born in the US Midwest, and began work at an early age on the railways, where he helped found a union aimed at enlisting all who worked on the railways.
According to accounts provided to family members, 17 enlisted members of the 343D Quartermaster Company have refused to perform a recklessly dangerous mission.
I AM bloody angry with the British government. After the 1991 Gulf War a Tory MP said that the country owed British soldiers a debt of honour.
THERE IS a scene in the film Gangs of New York where one of America’s elite worries about the riots against the draft during the American Civil War of the 1860s.
Marx’s collaborator Frederick Engels argued that women’s oppression was as old as class society. It arose from the structures of the privatised family which pushed women out of the economic centre of society.
"We’re at a crossroads," says Alan Walter, chair of Defend Council Housing (DCH). "The government is on the back foot and isolated, with a broad alliance supporting the ‘fourth option’—direct public investment in council housing."
There were two revolutions in Russia in 1917 - the first in February, the second in October. The February Revolution swept away the thousand-year rule of the Tsar.
Radical theatre is back with a vengeance, but your play takes this radicalisation a step further.
Lindsey German I WAS born in 1951. For someone of my generation, the changes in women’s lives throughout the world have been absolutely astonishing. Perhaps most remarkable is the change from women being centred in the home to working outside the home.
Why have you agreed to play the gig in Trafalgar Square at the end of the European Social Forum?
By the end of the 20th century Israel had received nearly $100 billion in military and civilian aid from the US. This staggering figure dwarfed the sums the US gave to other client states.
