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Those who remember what Thatcher did to the miners—and to many other working class communities—will prefer her immortalised as the poet Shelley did another Tory politician, Lord Castlereagh, after the Peterloo massacre in 1819: “I met murder on the way— / he had a mask like Castlereagh”.

Members of the Unite union have just one week left to vote for their union’s general secretary. And rank and file candidate Jerry Hicks is calling on his supporters to campaign up until the last minute.

Some 180,000 civil service workers joined a half-day strike against the Tories on last Friday

Rawiya is the first all-female photographic collective from the Middle East.

The brilliant Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will talk in Sheffield about her forthcoming book Americanah.

To remember the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe,who died last month, the BBC has a new adaptation of his most famous book.

Roddy Slorach examines the history of the relationship between capitalism, work and disability

Far from preventing anti-Muslim violence, Giles Ji Ungpakorn says Burma’s rulers stoked it—starting with the British

The UK Independence Party poses as a radical party that speaks for ordinary people, but its programme is rabidly anti-working class, writes Judith Orr

Egyptian activists were arrested, beaten then freed after they protested at the arrest of protesters last Saturday.

North Korea recently issued a “No.1 combat readiness alert” announcing that the “North and South are at war”. Leader Kim Jong-un also put his strategic missile units on standby for launch.

Members of the Unite union have until Saturday of next week to vote in the Unite union’s general secretary election.