Leonard St: Street art – who are the real vandals?
“The streets shall be our brushes – the squares our palettes”
Sweden: elections set to show a shift to the left – but fascists near the 10% mark
Parliamentary and local elections in Sweden are expected to show a general shift to the left – but also a sharp and worrying rise in the vote for the fascist Sweden Democrats.
His mother called him Charles: A tribute to Charlie Haden
‘I won’t lie, I was truly scared, but my fear was nothing compared what the liberation freedom fighters or the young Portuguese army recruits who refused to fight went through. I’ve thought about it a lot – would I do it again? I can honestly say yes.’
Remember Pluto never scabbed! The story of the 1941 Disney strike
Today – Thursday 10 July 2014 – more than 1.5 million public sector workers are on strike. They are striking against austerity and are saying “enough is enough”.
The darker the night the brighter the star – how a tile exposed the Holocaust deniers’ lies
The lack of evidence of gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in Poland has been used again and again by Holocaust deniers as “proof” that the Nazis did not exterminate 6 million Jews.
June 2014: Tracks of the month
One of the most profound statements on music I’ve ever heard or read was made by the saxophone player Charlie Parker, he said: