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When revolution broke out in the Arab world, few expected it to reach Libya, a country under the iron grip of Muammar Gaddafi.

Anders Behring Breivik’s brutal attacks in Norway last month followed widespread scapegoating of Muslims.

"After the attack it is easy to see how quickly things can change.

A new report describes how two of Britain’s most influential right wing think‑tanks have used the fear of terrorism and of Islam to push an authoritarian agenda.

Breivik was able to live a life of leisure as he prepared the massacre.

Activists are ready for a huge march to confront the English Defence League (EDL) when it tries to come to east London on 3 September.

Breivik’s Nazi email mates Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, emailed his Nazi manifesto to 1,000 contacts around the world—250 of them in Britain.

The bankers who wrecked the world’s economy are raking in billions of pounds while throwing workers onto the scrapheap.

Train drivers at the First TransPennine Express firm are balloting for strikes over pay. Their RMT union is also planning to ballot workers in other grades in the dispute.

Some 100 people gathered in Beirut in Lebanon last week for the week-long Viva Palestina Summer University. Its subject was "the new Middle East—people power, democracy and Palestine".