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Nicola Field, who was part of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, says a new film shows how struggle forged unity and helped break down prejudice

You don’t often get to walk up the Victoria and Albert museum steps following quotes from leading activists such as Martin Luther King Jr.

Paul Rees’s new book does a fine job documenting the impact three black footballers had on 1970’s Britain playing for West Bromwich Albion. 

Some 35 Afghan Sikh migrants were discovered inside a cargo container in Tilbury docks, Essex, last Saturday. 

Western forces are becoming more deeply embroiled in a new military intervention in Iraq, which they now admit will last months. 

Heavy fighting is continuing between government and pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine.

Raymie Kiernan looks at why Scottish independence activists believe a last push for votes can bring victory—and raise wider issues about the alternative to capitalism

The Irish state was compelled to introduce limited abortion legislation in 2012 and give women the right to abortion if their life was at risk.

More firefighters call on the FBU union leadership to step up the action in the long running pensions dispute

Up to 4,000 people have died in Nigerian military custody since  2012, human rights investigators believe.

Hundreds of anti-fracking campaigners occupied a field in Little Plumpton near Blackpool last weekend, by two sites where Cuadrilla plans to drill for shale gas.

Front of house staff at Amgueddfa Cymru/National Museum Wales walked out last weekend as part of our fight against management plans to cut weekend payments.