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June 2014

Ceasefire magazine has a sharp piece debunking the Islamophobic attacks directed at the Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman.

http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/tower-hamlets-outpost-raj-falls/

Issue (month):

June 2014

John Grayson has a useful piece that examines the dynamics around UKIP's rise to power in a string of South Yorkshire towns and cities on the Institute of Race Relations website

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/explaining-and-learning-from-the-ukip-surge-in-south-...

Issue (month):

June 2014

John Berger's pioneering TV exploration of art, Ways of Seeing, made in 1972 is available on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk

Issue (month):

May 2014

Betsy Barkas has written a detailed and damning look at the wider context of the death of Mark Duggan - Framing the Death of Mark Duggan - on the Institute of Race Relations website.

http://www.irr.org.uk/news/framing-the-death-of-mark-duggan/

Issue (month):

May 2014

Rehad Desai, the director of the documentary 'Miners Shot Down' about the massacre of the Marikana miners, has penned a sharp polemic on the bankruptcy of the South African Communist Party, a key ally of the ANC. The SACP has attacked the call by the National Union of Metalworkers South Africa for a break from the ANC and for discussions to begin about creating a new workers party.

http://socialistnetwork.org/the-south-african-communist-party-is-the-living-dead...

Issue (month):

May 2014

British Pathe, which for decades showed news at cinemas, has put it's entire 85,000 archive of historic films onto it's Youtube channel. Highlights include Trotsky talking in English in Mexico in 1938 about the Moscow show trials, footage of the Russian revolution and from the sit down strikes in the US car industry in the late 1930s

http://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe

Issue (month):

May 2014

With so many contradictory claims and counter claims over chemical (and other) weapons in Syria, one journalist stands out. Elliot Higgins, aka "Brown Moses", has been undertaking some detailed forensic journalism. His blog carries all the latest evidence, backed up by images, videos and analysis.

http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/

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April 2014

Finally Got the News, a great documentary about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, who organised workers in the car plants of Detroit in the late 1960's and early 1970's is now available on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YANDJiCZ6rw

Issue (month):

April 2014

Mike Gonzalez has written an excellent analysis of the roots of the deepening crisis in Venezuela. It can be found on the Pluto press website.

http://plutopress.wordpress.com/tag/mike-gonzalez/

Issue (month):

April 2014

David Runciman's pen portrait of Richard Branson in the London Review of Books is a delight: "Like the Russian oligarchs, Branson has made little of his money in the white heat of market competition."

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n06/david-runciman/the-stuntman

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