Amazing Grace – Aretha Franklin, God, Soul and Respect
Detroit, is where musical talent ran strong and free. Everyone was singing and harmonizing, everyone was playing piano and guitar. Aretha came out of this world, but she also came out of another far-off magical world none of us really understood. She came from a distant musical planet where children are born with their gifts fully formed.
Analysis: the ‘Free Tommy’ demo and a year of far right protests (with table and video)
Thousands turned out on Saturday 14 July for another “Free Tommy Robinson” demo – the latest in just over a year of far right racist street protests listed in our table. Now elements of the new far right movement see an opening amid the Tories’ Brexit crisis.
The refugee ‘crisis’ – Trump, the EU and new levels of barbarism
As we prepare to “unwelcome” US president Donald Trump to Britain, the fallout from his policy of separating families at the Mexican border continues. But if people watching Trump’s actions with horror comfort themselves by thinking that nothing so dreadful happens in Europe, they would be mistaken. Refugee solidarity activist Margaret Woods explains
Analysis: behind the ‘Free Tommy’ demo – what’s going on in the new far right?
The far right in Britain has mobilised its biggest ever demonstration. Around 15,000 people joined the “Free Tommy Robinson” demo in Whitehall, central London on Saturday 9 June. We look here at what the march means in the context of the fast-developing new far right movement in Britain.
A sudden escalation: fascists and far right mobilise in London, Leeds and Manchester in a week
A sudden escalation in far right and fascist street mobilisations has taken place in Britain over the space of just seven days.
Quick notes: FLA in Manchester, DFLA in Woolwich
The battle for control between two rival factions of the Football Lads Alliance (FLA) looks to be largely over, after the demo called by the section aligned with former leader John Meighan flopped in Manchester last Saturday.