Partisan Diary: A women’s life in the Italian resistance (a short review)
Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance, by Ada Gobetti is a story of heroism, political courage and humanity. It is also a tale of fear, anguish and human emotion.
Tracks of the month – music to clean the soul
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”.
A dream come true…Tayo Aluko on Langston Hughes
This website, Dream Deferred, is named after a poem by Langston Hughes. So we are delighted to feature a guest post by Tayo Aluko, playwright and performer of the acclaimed Call Mr Robeson, who explains how his eyes were opened to Hughes’ work – and that of artist and director Steve McQueen, the Turner Prize and Oscar winner.
Stik’s street art – everyone needs a home!
I took the Piccadilly line westwards from Kings Cross – my destination was Acton Town.
Poland: fascists storm election authority offices in local polls debacle
Fascists and far right parties have seized on the fiasco of Poland’s local elections – in which results were delayed for a week after the poll last Sunday – to occupy the national electoral offices and demonstrate in cities across the country.
UKIP victory in Rochester – Tories’ woes masked by Labour’s troubles
On the morning of UKIP’s election victory in the Rochester and Strood byelection, the story of the day should have been the crisis faced by the David Cameron and his government as they lose a second seat in less than a month.