For the Fallen: Remembrance Day 11th November 2021:
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.     _{(Laurence Binyon - 1869-1943)}

UNITED KINGDOM: Jacobin Magazine: 22nd August 2021:
In a column for Jacobin, Jeremy Corbyn writes that we need class politics to transform our economies and save humanity from climate apocalypse. There’s no other way ...... Read more

It is eighty years since ...... WSWS: 22nd June 2021:
In the early hours of June 22, 1941, over 3 million troops of the German Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union, launching the bloodiest conflict in the history of humanity. By the end of the war in May 1945, at least 27 million Soviet citizens would be dead, among them 1.5 million Soviet Jews and over 3 million Soviet prisoners of war ...... Read more

TENNESSEE: WSWS: 11th June 2021:
Jimmy Allen Ruth, the Tennessee Trailways bus driver who, in 1961, braved the Ku Klux Klan and racist lawmen to carry civil rights movement “Freedom Riders” deep into the then Jim Crow South to challenge racial segregation, died on June 2, 2021 at the age of 83 in Bartlett, Tennessee ...... Read more

SOUTH AFRICA: Socialist Worker: 6th June 2021:
Chanie Rosenberg, who has died aged 99, spent her life fighting the injustices that are still at the centre of world politics today ...... Read more

BRITISH COLOMBIA: WSWS: 31st May 2021:
Suffer the little children ...... how the Canadian state in partnership with the churches pursued a colonial program to strip Indigenous nations of their histories, their culture and their identity ...... Read more

ISTANBUL: Daily Sabah: 29th May 2021:
It's Istanbul, not Constantinople ...... the 568th anniversary of the conquest of Contantinople in 1453 by 21 year old Memnet II and the birth of the Ottoman Empire ...... Read more