By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour member. It is 75 years since the atomic bomb attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.
Category: Historical Archive
By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot CLP member The fourth episode in Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain series, concentrated on the 1980s, a period dominated by Tory Prime
By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party member. The second episode of the BBC Andrew Marr series on the making of modern Britain covers the
By Richard Mellor in California “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe
By John Pickard As we might have anticipated, the general tone of the VE-Day coverage in the press and on TV last Friday was Union
By Beatrice Windsor The Queen’s address to the nation and this month’s anniversary of VE-Day has evoked the memory of World War II. There’s been
By Mark Langabeer, Newton Abbot Labour Party A BBC Storyville production, called Facing Franco’s Crime, The silence of others gives voice to the victims of the 40-year rule
By Michael Roberts This month marks 175 years since Friedrich Engels published in 1845, his masterpiece of social analysis, The Condition of the Working Class in
By Richard Mellor in California Some time ago I saw gif or a meme (I don’t really know the difference) on Facebook and the white
By Michael Roberts Today is the 200th anniversary of what has come to be called the Peterloo massacre. On 16 August 1819, 60,000 working people gathered
