The 1917 ‘October Revolution’ in Russia, which took place on 5 November by the old Russian calendar, has spawned countless books and articles, many of the written from the point of view of defenders of […]
This year, floods have wreaked serious havoc and suffering in Nigeria. The country experiences floods every year but this is the worst since 2012 when there was a similar degree of devastation with 363 deaths […]
On Sunday 23 October – the anniversary of the beginning of the workers’ revolution against Stalinism in 1956 – the student movement ADOM and the teachers’ and educators’ unions called for a demonstration in Budapest […]
Israel’s general election held on 1 November 1st – the fifth election in three years – saw the return of the corrupt, right-wing former prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to power. He is still facing trial […]
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which took place in Beijing from 16-22 October, saw a marked increase in the centralisation of power around the figure of General Secretary Xi Jinping. […]
Over the last few months, many working-class people have been staring at their rising gas and electricity bills and sensing that something is fundamentally broken. Why is the average household now paying twice as much […]
In the tightest presidential election ever in Brazil, the far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro was narrowly defeated by the veteran candidate of the Workers’ Party (PT), Luiz Inácio da Silva, popularly known as Lula. Lula scraped […]
After World War Two, the civil rights movement erupted in America. Black people in the US faced enormous racism and discrimination, especially in the south, a legacy of slavery. Large numbers of Black people moved […]
On 29 October 1922, King Victor Emmanuel lll appointed Benito Mussolini prime minister as his blackshirts organised to march on Rome – beginning 20 years of fascist rule in Italy. The 100th anniversary of the […]
The final days of the Truss-led Tory government revealed a deeper than ever, jaw-dropping level of crisis in the Tory party. Following the total collapse of Liz Truss’s shortest-ever Tory leadership, the party’s MPs were […]
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