Blogs

Four refugees who have fled from danger tell their stories through the objects that they most treasure. This is in Memento, a programme on BBC World Service that will be broadcast several times on Friday 2 October 2009. The BBC gives...

Here are some news from inside the Iranina prisons. The strangest case. A young man who was detained on 13 July 1999 at his home in Tehran and never heard of him again! Said Zinali was taken away by some people who claimed are the...

The EU is negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. Signing that deal would hand the Colombian Government a propaganda coup, suggesting that its human rights...

Two Iranian trade unionists from the sugar industry are still facing jail, although three of their colleagues have had their sentences overturned on appeal after an international solidarity campaign. The IUF – the global union for food...

Morbidly enough, I’ve always thought songs about capital punishment were a pretty fascinating sub-genre. On this blog I’ve previously mentioned The Adverts’ punk classic “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” (a number 18 hit in 1977, pop-pickers!) and...