Irish republican leader Martin McGuinness, who was聽Sinn Fein leader in Northern Ireland until stepping down due to ill health earlier this year, passed away on March 20 aged 66.
Born in 1950 in Derry聽in the six counties occupied by Britain, he came face to face with the discrimination and sectarian bigotry against Irish nationalists and Catholics that marked the partitioned statelet.
Ian聽Hodson, national president of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union, explains why his union continues to support socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, as the veteran left-winger faces fresh calls to resign over his alleged 鈥渦nelectability鈥.
Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr
Lyndsey Jenkins
Biteback Publishing, 2015
282 pages
When Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton was arrested in 1909 for protesting outside British parliament, and went on prison hunger-strike, for demanding women鈥檚 right to vote, she was, to prevent an embarrassing political fuss, released early.
This avoided the spectacle of one of Britain鈥檚 best-connected aristocrats being subjected to the government鈥檚 policy of force-feeding hunger-striking suffragettes.
Eleanor Marx
By Rachel Holmes
Bloomsbury, 2015
508 pages
鈥淚s it not wonderful when you come to look at things squarely in the face, how rarely we seem to practise all the fine things we preach to others?鈥 lamented Eleanor Marx in 1892.聽
Karl Marx鈥檚 youngest daughter was to be the tragic victim of this truism, as Rachel Holmes explores in her biography that extricates this pioneering revolutionary socialist feminist from the giant shadow of her father.
I often hear that music and politics should remain separate. I snigger at such a concept; as if they have ever been separate.
Those proponents may as well take the next logical turn and suggest that drugs and pop have never taken the same fork in the road.
Without some form of statement, music would have become as relevant as the novella, or Spanish mime.
Every turn in society has been reflected in the music of the day, from medieval folk to early jazz and blues, to punk and beyond. In some societies, it is one of the few ways of telling how brutal life is.
Nearly 2 million Britons have signed a petition calling on President Trump鈥檚 official state visit to be canceled. On February 20, thousands of protesters gathered outside Parliament in London as British lawmakers debated whether to deny Trump a formal state visit. Democracy Now! spoke to Asad Rehman of Friends of the Earth International. He spoke at the protest in London on February 20. The video and transcript are below.
Left-wing British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn鈥檚 relaunch of his campaign since the start of the year has seen him take a more combative and pro-active approach in putting forward his anti-austerity, anti-war agenda. In doing so, he has engaged more with the media.
English singer unveiled a haunting cover of 's 2007 song along with a stark video of her performance of the track at the against Donald Trump in London on January 21,
The Conservative party government鈥檚 plan to slash unemployment benefits for disabled people making new claims could leave some unable to afford the essentials of life, opponents warned on February 2.
Under government plans, from April new claimants assessed as fit for work will have their benefits cut by 拢29.05 to 拢73.10 a week, the same rate as the jobseeker鈥檚 allowance. The government claims the changes will help halve the 鈥渄isability employment gap鈥 and save the Treasury an estimated 拢1 billion by 2020-21.
Pressure has mounted on Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May to pull the plug on a planned state visit to Britain by far right US President Donald Trump On January 30, 聽a petition to bar her new pal from Britain sailed past the one million mark.
The petition, which within hours smashed the 100,000 figure required to trigger a debate in Parliament , came as聽May faces a backlash, with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn leading calls for the invitation to be withdrawn.
Alex Nunns鈥 new book, , charts the improbable rise of the socialist Jeremy Corbyn from a long-time backbencher to the leader of the Labour Party.