After leaving Calder Street school in Blantyre, he worked briefly as an apprentice in a Glasgow dental laboratory, becoming the union rep and joining the Labour Party Young Socialists, which he ...

So, aged 18, off he sauntered in his kilt to assassinate a fascist dictator. Anarchism has a respectable intellectual pedigree among dreamers and other academics. It isn’t practical since “libertarian ...

Just as ancient Roman Empire had its protective geniuses of war, so in today’s dominant new patriarchal martyrology, the ...

And: "We must have but one flag. We must also have but one language ... Language is an explosive issue in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The language conflict in Estonia has been ...

The Georgian government’s overreach has galvanised opponents of its authoritarian turn ...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over 30 years, is poised to extend his rule ...

In 1861, when Republican leader Abraham Lincoln was on his way to becoming President of the United States of America, the ...

Rally against Confederate flag; Deng Xiaoping reinstated; Soviet Union boycotts UN; imperialist powers fight over China ...

However his case, which made headlines around the world, drew international attention to Soviet human rights abuses ... samizdat magazines and joined the Union for Intellectual Freedom, a ...

You know, in the mid-20th century, we were very concerned about the Soviet Union and what the Soviet Union was doing in this ...

You can define things by what they are not, as well as by what they are. For much of the 20th century, the Soviet Union performed this role for the West, which was able to find its self-definition ...