Unite – Trade unionists must try to free the Middle Eastern Mandela
Unite’s Tony Burke has visited a hunger striking Kurdish MP
Unite’s Tony Burke has visited a hunger striking Kurdish MP
Aid should not be a tool of business and military interests. It ought to be a mechanism for the global redistribution of wealth, a form of reparations for the historical injustices which underlie global inequality today.
Whilst twenty years of democracy is an anniversary worth celebrating, it’s also a reminder that the struggle for equality is not over.
In a shocking disregard for freedom of expression, Neil Phillips from Rugeley, Staffordshire, was arrested last week after he made tasteless jokes about Nelson Mandela on the internet. Or was he?
Raul Castro will be speaking today at the Mandela Memorial and David Cameron won’t. Here’s why.
Spanish right-wing ruling Popular Party “laments the loss of Nelson Mandela” on its Twitter account. A few months earlier they voted against naming a street after Mandela – a street called “July 18” (in honour of the day Franco rose against the Republic in 1936).
Shamik Das looks at Nelson Mandela’s sporting legacy, and the role rugby, cricket and football played in the years following Apartheid.
Be in no doubt, Mandela was a great man. But nobody is perfect; and one of the tenets of political maturity is recognising that even the greatest political figures have their flaws.
Across the devolved nations, political leaders have lined up to express their admiration for Nelson Mandela.
Nelson Mandela: 1913 – 2013.