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• History (U.K.)

  The 43 Group: Britain’s post war Jewish antifascist street fighters

  10 January, by BARNETT Marcus

  After the Second World War, Jewish soldiers returned to Britain and had to fight fascism all over again.
  When 24-year-old Morris Beckman returned to his house on Amhurst Road in Hackney, he’d experienced quite a lot. His time fighting fascism abroad had seen him survive two Nazi torpedo attacks (...)

• History (U.K.)

  History (Belfast, Northen Ireland): The 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre – A hidden history of British military repression against civilians

  10 September 2018, by Socialist Democracy

  Review: Massacre at Ballymurphy (TV, Channel 4).
  The “Ballymurphy Massacre” refers to the death of eleven civilians, killed in Ballymurphy, Belfast, Northern Ireland, by the 1^st Battalion, Parachute Regiment of the British Army during the Operation Demetrius, 9 and 11 August 1971. The shootings (...)

• History (U.K.)

  In Scotland, after election day: Independence on Hold – Alex Salmond and the SNP

  11 June 2017, by BRODER David

  The general election marked a setback for the Scottish National Party. Is the independence dream dead?
  Coming the day after the Scottish independence referendum, September 19, 2014, was a rather different election hangover from June 9, 2017. Three years ago, the young and forgotten used a (...)

• History (U.K.)

  2003 war inquiry: Blairism should have been killed off in Iraq. Chilcot could finally bury it

  6 July 2016, by ABBOTT Diane

  New Labour deserves no epitaph – it should have died in the deserts and cities of Iraq. As Jeremy Corbyn said, it’s time for a new politics.
  The Chilcot report provides an utterly devastating indictment of Tony Blair’s preparations for and conduct of the Iraq war, the most lethal and grotesque (...)