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The Rise and Fall of Citizen Black, BBC 2
Caligula, Nero, Commodus, the mad, bad Roman emperors, arouse in us pity for the people who could not find a better system of government - and, at a certain level, incredulity and incomprehension.
The same, when we read about, say, 19th century slavery in America, in which black people were bred on special farms and often worked to death over a short span of murderous exploitation in six or seven years.
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By Rosalind Robson
No one at Solidarity will mourn the loss of Immigration Minister Beverly Hughes, who resigned this month after a row over so-called "scam" applications of East Europeans migrants for entry to the UK. We will not forgive her, or the rest of her government, for presiding over a brutal and inhumane asylum and immigration policy. It is a policy that denies thousands of persecuted people a safe life.
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By Maria Exall
The Government's proposed Bill on Civil Partnerships for same sex couples will be a further improvement in rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
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The recent arrest of eight men for allegedly planning a bombing campaign has been one of comes after a massive increase in arrests and searches in the last year.
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This is the seventeenth year Ideas for Freedom has taken place. The event is a forum for free and open socialist debate and discussion. Ideas for Freedom is an opportunity for socialists and activists to take stock of the political situation, debate differences, and to meet like-minded people.
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Zvi Shtauber, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to Britain, has denounced the "anti-semitism" of the British left and its alliance with Islamists in Britain (Observer, 4 April).
The Sharon government has denounced BBC reporter Orla Guerin for her supposed "anti-semitic" bias.
In a report on the capture by the Israeli army of a reluctant 16-year-old Palestinian suicide bomber, Guerin questioned whether the Israeli account of the boy's capture and of his intentions could be believed.
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Support for No Sweat continues to grow around the country...
Lecturers
The university lecturers' union, the AUT, passed policy on sweatshops and in support of the No Sweat campaign at its recent conference.
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By Mick Duncan
Between 26-28 April, a business conference entitled "Iraq Procurement 2004: Meet the Buyers" - sponsored by Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and Raytheon - will be taking place in central London. In attendance will be Iraqi ministers, a representative of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and Tony Blair's Special Representative on Trade and Reconstruction, Brian Wilson.
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Tony Jeffries
On Saturday 27 March around 70 people met in Birmingham for the Organising Committee of the third European Social Forum (a gathering of campaigners opposed to neo-liberalism, capitalism, or war).
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We continue our look at the miners' strike with a look at the events of 11-20 April 1984.
The events
11 April 1984: Pit Deputies vote to join the strike
12 April NUM Executive faces down right-wing calls for a national ballot and right wing Notts area president Ray Chadburn emerges from the meeting to tell his members: "get off your knees and support the strike."
