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IF Prime Minister David Cameron and Education Secretary Michael Gove were sitting a difficult examination it's easy to see how they would tackle it.  Just ignore the questions, set down what you...

MOTT convicted after public campaigning FORMER Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt has been sentenced to 80 years in prison after being found guilty of crimes against humanity, and specifically...

THOUSANDS on streets to protest austerity, Tel Aviv    THE Israeli government and its policies came under a two-pronged attack this week. First, world-famous theoretical physicist Stephen...

  WOMEN DEMAND JUSTICE.  But SWP joined wrong demonstration!  THERE were cheers in the courtroom and outside today, as a Bangladesh war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced a...

COMING BACK FROM SHOWBIZ ?  Neil and Christine Hamilton.    "Hamilton held strong conservative views. He opposed trade unions, immigration and child benefits. He supported free...

HASSAN JUMA'A HASSAN JUMA'A  leader of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions is facing a potential jail sentence when he appears in a Basra court on Sunday, May 4, chrged with ‘Overstepping the...

  NOT GOOD ON CAMERA  HOW very timely. In the same week that President Obama warns of the "red line" that will have been crossed if the Assad regime is shown to have used chemical weapons...

LINDA WHELAN with portrait of her son Craig.  photo: The Journal IF you really want to know about things happening to people at work, you often have to turn from the national media to the...

CONFRONTING firms with responsibility  Sum of Us FIRST it was FIRE, now it's a BUILDING COLLAPSE. The high price of cheap clothing and profitable business. RESCUERS were combing through the...

THIS blog has become a bit like a chronicle of deaths in the past few postings, but c'est la vie. We are commanded to remember, especially those left crying out for justice. Today, St.George's Day...

 STEPHEN LAWRENCE.   Long struggle for justice took longer than he lived, and still not finished.  TWENTY years ago, about 10.30 pm on a Thursday evening, April 22 , 1993,...

GHETTO IN FLAMES. Germans set housing block on fire to drive out or destroy ghetto fighters. "We were beaten by the flames, not the Germans", said Marek Edelman. SEVENTY years ago, on April 19,...

LONDON MET protests won reinstatement. But fight is going on.   HAS the government been directly interfering in the running of a university?  IF it has done, and everything is above...

MERSEYSIDE UNITED as one. Liverpool Trades Union Council Press statement Wednesday 17 April 2013 Why we won’t mourn for Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher died on 8 April 2013 and the vast...

 LIVERPOOL mourns. But not for Thatcher. Banner at Saturday's match.  THOUSANDS of people gathered at Liverpool football club's Anfield ground today to mark the 24th anniversary of the day...

APOLOGIES to fans and admirers who might have been hoping for a bop around Trafalgar Square with me on Saturday evening, but after an early start, an interesting meeting of the Greater London...

DELIVERED trussed up to his enemies. But who arranged Patrice Lumumba's death?   HAS the ghost of Congo's first elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, murdered in 1961, and revered ever...

PAOLO DI CANIO wears "Duce" tattoo and has written that Mussolini was "misunderstood". Was his salute, made more than once, also "misunderstood"? A WEEK is a long time in politics, so said Harold...

GIOVANNI di Stefano has been sentenced to fourteen years in jail for a series of frauds on “desperate and vulnerable victims”  whom  he tricked into thinking he was a bona fide...

JEREMIAH DUGGAN. Family still fighting for truth and justice over his death.  TEN years ago the body of London-born student Jeremiah Duggan was found by the side of a motorway outside...