David Victor Emmanuel, better known as reggae artist Smiley Culture, died during a police raid on his home in March of last year. The IPCC investigation found no evidence of a criminal offence by police. Police say Smiley stabbed himself but many questions remain unanswered.
By Koos Couvee
The United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) calls for […]
From Wandsworth Against Cuts
Campaign group Wandsworth Against Cuts welcomes the decision of Wandsworth Council to stop the eviction process they started after last summer’s riot at Clapham Junction. Maite de la Calva and her lawyer, Emma Norton from Liberty, met Wandsworth Council on Thursday 19 January, and were told that the Council are not going […]
Read more →By Zoe Stavri / @stavvers
Following my last dissatisfying evening with Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe,  it seemed almost masochistic to sit through a similar propaganda exercise all over again. Perhaps I am a glutton for punishment, though, as when presented with the opportunity to hear Hogan-Howe give a lecture on “total policing†at LSE, I […]
By Mehdi Hasan /Â @ns_mehdihasan
Newspaper comment pages don’t reflect the diversity of 21st-century readers.
What have the following five individuals got in common: Gary Younge, Hugh Muir, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Amol Rajan and India Knight? They are part of a small group of non-white newspaper columnists who appear regularly on the comment pages of our national newspapers. Well, […]
TAKE ACTION NOW! Please write to your MP and urge them to vote against the proposals. You can also come to the protest happening on 20 January outside Parliament, which the BHA and other groups are supporting.
Tomorrow, Â 20 January, Nadine Dorries’ proposed Sex Education (Required Content) Bill, which seeks to secure abstinence education for girls only, is due […]
From Patrice Lumumba Archive on Marxists.org
My dear wife,
I am writing these words to you, not knowing whether they will ever reach you, or whether I shall be alive when you read them.
Today we celebrate the 70th birthday of Muhammad Ali, the legendary former boxing world champion, black Muslim, refusenik, social activist, comedian, philantropist and by his own admission, greatest man in the history of the human race.
Below an interview with sports journalist Ian Goldridge (not without its problems of analysis) from 1969 after Ali refused induction […]
51 years ago today, Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was assassinated by Katanga authorities that were following Belgian government commands.
He was assassinated with two members of his government Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito. The video below briefly charts his story and the story of African […]
Beautiful clip of Stevie Nicks singing Wild Heart while she gets her make-up done for a Rolling Stone shoot. It’s been going round my head all day… Where is the reason, don’t blame it on me, blame it on my wild heart… hanna ♥ p.s. a note about the highly unpredictable nature of posts at the […]
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