What is While There Is Light about? It’s a story about trying to come to terms with what happened to a whole generation of Asians of whom I was one.
Tony Woodley, general secretary of the TGWU union A COUPLE of years ago I’d have said it would be difficult or unlikely that we could make the kind of gains we are beginning to see.
AT THE end of the Second World War the world was carved up between the US, Russia and Britain. Hungary fell under Russian control.
WE SET up a stall at the brilliant Battleship Potemkin screening in Trafalgar Square.
THE HARTLEPOOL by-election has been called for 30 September. The election was sparked when Peter Mandelson MP was given a lucrative job as a European commissioner. It should be a safe Labour seat, but these days there is no such thing.
RESPECT STUNNED New Labour in an election in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets last week.
His "crime" was to have alerted the world to Israel’s nuclear weapons programme, which he had discovered following his work for nine years at the Dimona nuclear research centre in the Negev desert.
‘IT’S STARTING to feel like the whole movement is heading to London for the European Social Forum (ESF) in October," says Chris Nineham, who is part of the mobilisation for the event.
WHICH country has the most pyramids from ancient times? Of course, everyone knows the answer is Egypt—except that actually it’s Sudan.
IN OCTOBER 450,000 health workers in Unison will be balloted on Agenda for Change following a special conference on 7 October.
GERMANY WAS on the brink of revolution after the First World War. A workers’ revolt in this powerful country could have broken the isolation of the Russian Revolution and helped to prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler. It was a turning point in the history of the 20th century.
THROUGH A history of sustained violence against Chechnya, Russia sowed the seeds of the Beslan tragedy.
