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Wednesday, 14 April 2010 04:53
At the Counter Terror Expo in London’s Olympia they are giving top billing to the security industry’s favourite politician. ‘The most experienced cabinet minister of modern times’, they call him: Dr John Reid.
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The construction of a high speed rail line from London to Birmingham has been tabled for 2017 with plans to extend to Manchester, Leeds and Scotland. But is it the best way to improve public transport?
Mephedrone, the latest legal high to hit Britain’s clubbing scene, is to be classified as a Class B drug within weeks and a ban on importation was put into force yesterday.
The Sexualisation of Young People Review commissioned by the Home Office is confused, simplistic and fails to situate sexual representation within a historical and social understanding of power and inequality.
There are good days and bad days working for Royal Mail. Yesterday was a bad day.
It is extraordinary that Schools Minister Ed Balls has agreed that members of the BNP can work in our schools, in the same week that judge Paul Collins ruled its constitution illegal, saying, "I hold that the BNP are likely to commit unlawful acts of discrimination."
The readmission to prison of Jon Venables, convicted at the age of 10 for murdering toddler James Bulger and a call for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised to 12 has caused a storm. Lindsey German writes on the issues obscured by the media response.
Principled soldier deserves our solidarity, argues Katherine Connelly, convenor of Colchester Stop the War Coalition
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31 May - 1 June 2013
an international festival
In the parks, halls and public spaces around Kings Cross
With:
David Harvey, Tariq Ali, Tony Benn, Owen Jones, Nina Power, Sanum Ghafoor, Andrew Murray, Laurie Penny, Lindsey German, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Paul Le Blanc, Terry Eagleton, Paul Gilroy and more...
Saturday 22 June 2013
9:30am – 5pm
Central Hall Westminster
Events
Books
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
By Lindsey German
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
By Neil Faulkner
The People V Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
By Chris Nineham
Timelines
A Political History of the Modern World
By John Rees
A People's History of London
By Lindsey German and John Rees
Counterfire Books
The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
By John Rees and Joseph Daher
Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
By Chris Nineham
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