The forgotten workers’ resistance against the Nazis: Warsaw’s Jewish tailors
A hidden history of Jewish workers’ resistance in the factories of the Warsaw Ghetto should be celebrated today.
Your favourite tracks/albums of 2015
We asked our friends and readers to send us their five favourite tracks/albums of 2015. Some did just that, others included their favourite gigs, films, books…
FRANCE: an election triumph for fascist Front National, despite failure to win a region
The BBC said the FN was “routed” in the election – but in reality it was no such thing: although it didn’t take a region, these elections have been a triumph for the fascist party.
Oldham West: shock for political establishment as Labour thumps UKIP
Even if UKIP didn’t win, Labour’s majority of some 14,000 would be slashed in a damning verdict on Corbyn, they claimed… right up until the result came through.
December’s tracks of the month: Three class acts – Darkstar, Richard Hawley and Acid Arab
These artists do not set out with the conscious aim of looking at class. But through their art they have created works of beauty that demonstrate the complexity and changing nature of working class life
Ice T’s interpretation of ASK YOUR MAMA by Langston Hughes
Last night the Barbican in London hosted the international premier of Langston Hughes masterpiece ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 Moods for Jazz.