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The nearest most political activists get to ‘fame’ is by catching a glimpse of themselves on television reports or in newspaper photographs.

Understanding what has changed and what remains of the ‘old’ homophobia is not as straightforward as it seems.

“There are many people in this room today who have been around the left for a long time, they’ve been in our organisation for a bit and have moved away. There are some of you who never came across the SWP before you came to this event. My message to you today is ‘join us’. Why? It’s very simple: we are going into battle...”

Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

One contributor to the SWP’s ‘Pre-conference Bulletin 1 – October 2009’, an ‘Andy’ from South London, makes a number of claims and suggestions in his contribution – ‘A change of strat

Nobody expects a Pope to be anything other than a tad conservative, to have his political compass pointing in the "reactionary" direction.

It should come as no surprise that Pope Benedict has issued a homophobic little rant. It had to happen sooner or later.

Studs Terkel, radical author, historian and broadcaster passed away on 31st October 2008.