UK History Newswire Archive
Lockerbie - Never mind the political point-scoring... who planted the bomb?
05-09-2009 11:47
Sheffield Troublemakers - Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History
03-09-2009 21:33
How jail feels like
01-09-2009 03:41
150th anniversary of statue to chartist leader
29-08-2009 11:22
Feargus Edward O'Connor (1794 – 1855) was a Chartist leader and advocate of land reform. In 1847 he was elected MP for Nottingham, making him the first and only Chartist to get elected to Parliament. While largely forgotten today, when a statue in his memory was unveiled 150 years ago in August 1859 thousands of people came to mark the event. A contradictory figure, the statue to O'Connor which still stands in the Arboretum is a reminder of Nottingham's long, proud tradition of political radicalism.
Further Reading: BBC: Historic Figures | Spartacus Educational | Wikipedia
Revolutionary syndicalism and organization
26-08-2009 15:34
Public Meeting: Can Obama bring Justice and Peace to the Middle East
25-08-2009 22:29
With Professor Jeff Halper, Director (Israeli Committee Against House Demolition)
Friday 4th September 6.30 pm
Library Lecture Theatre, Tudor Square, (Behind the city Library Sheffield S1 1XZ) Sheffield
Public Meeting: Sheffield Troublemakers
25-08-2009 22:12
Lockerbie Bombing: Al-Megrahi's Statement
22-08-2009 21:19
Upon leaving HM Prison Greenock en route back to Libya, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi issued the following statement through his lawyers:Roman and saxon settlements being destroyed forever
20-08-2009 17:34
Constructors on the Olympic Highway destroy historic findings to save moneyItaly, Germany and Japan: Former World War II Axis Nations Repudiate Bans agains
17-08-2009 15:42
So despite constitutional requirements to repudiate and renounce and bans against preparing for war, the three former Axis nations have indeed been partners to a series of armed conflicts for sixty years.
But for most of that period, indeed for almost a half century, the nations' legal prohibitions against direct military aggression have been observed even in the breach.
With the return of Germany, Italy and Japan to waging and supporting wars and the revival of Nazi sentiments in Europe a student of the future could be forgiven for thinking that the Axis powers were the victors and not the losers of World War II and that the Nuremberg trials had never occurred.
Provocation on the Plinth
14-08-2009 20:21
Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other project
Artist and activist Liz Crow sat on the plinth in a crowded Saturday night Square on her wheelchair wearing full Nazi regalia to draw attention to a hidden history and the message it holds for us all today.
Cambridge Festival of Ideas
13-08-2009 13:12
The Yankee Bases and the Latin American Sovereignty (by Fidel Castro)
12-08-2009 22:28
The arguments used for the installation of seven air and naval US bases in Colombia are an insult to intelligence.
The Yankee forces could promote a dirty war as they did in Nicaragua, and even recruit soldiers of foreign nationalities who are trained by them and attack any country. But the combative, brave and patriotic people of Colombia would hardly let itself be dragged into a war against a people from a sister nation like Venezuela.
Bombshell: Bin Laden worked for US till 9/11
12-08-2009 07:56
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).
1905
12-08-2009 00:54
... for the empire was important to Britain in other, less material ways too.Honduras President Manuel Zelaya (by Latuff)
10-08-2009 04:51
The Great Hiroshima Cover-Up
09-08-2009 08:31
Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years
08-08-2009 20:33
To regard those acts as definitely other than criminal and immoral—as most Americans do—is to believe that anything—anything—can be legitimate means: at worst, a necessary, lesser, evil. At least, if done by Americans, on the order of a president, during wartime.
Niger Coup: Onward to Kleptocracy
07-08-2009 20:32
Olive Picking [Palestine, October 2009]
06-08-2009 23:23
Dear Friends,On behalf of the coordination Committee of the JAI/ATG of Palestine we hope that the PSC is able to publicise this years Olive Harvest event on your web pages and e mail listings. We are hoping for a greater turn out this year from Britain and further afield.
Details can be found via the web link
http://www.freewebs.com/visitpalestine/oliveharvestoctober2009.htm and on the PSC web site
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=62&Content_ID=758