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  Pat, who is 85, was detained in Manchester yesterday under section 13 of the Terrorism Act after standing with a sign that read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” She kept it on display as a matter of principle, which resulted in her arrest.

Cancelled then restored  منع "يوميات الإبادة" لعاطف أبو سيف في مانشستر Under pressure from the local Jewish Representative Council, the Manchester’s progressive art centre , HOME cancels a celebration of Palestinian writing A liberal review in the Guardian

 Ignore the statue, read the man. Engels comes of age

The road beyond Wigan Pier

London's exodus

"I'm a Marxist — we are misunderstood on both the left and right"

It is to precisely such contradictions that Collins was drawn. “He was bound to the system in a way that a lot of us are,” he says. “His resistance within the system is very familiar. There is no anterior position now, no position outside the system. You take an easyJet to an environmental conference. We are all compromised by the system and articulate resistance within it. He’s a perfect reflection of our problems today.” Why I took a Soviet statue of Engles across Europe to Manchester

Note the loose use of the term "Islamism" in the article . "Were I 20 today, would I be attracted to Islamism or desire to become a soldier of Islamic State.? " Today’s angry young Islamists are not interested in the fight against austerity, the defence of the NHS or even in the struggle against racism. They are obsessed, rather, in showing solidarity with the peoples of Palestine and Chechnya and Syria. In an age in which anti-imperialist movements have faded and belief in alternatives to capitalism dissolved, radical  Islam  provides the illusion of being part of a global movement for change."