Bernadette Hyland sees the directness and accessibility of KEITH HARING’S art as an important tool for communicating social and political messages to the widest of audiences

Excellent dramatisation of the revolutionary upsurge in the aftermath of Peterloo

Anguished testimonies of children who survived the nazi onslaught on the USSR

Novel explores the mindset of the younger generation in the GDR

Account of the only five women to achieve Cabinet posts in Labour governments up to 1997

BERNADETTE HYLAND recommends a book exploring the experience of ‘Second World’ women in the struggle for global equality

Bernadette Hyland talks to veteran communist and healthcare campaigner FRANCES HOOK

Classic children's novel gets an excellent adaptation by Salford Theatre Company

A new documentary is a vivid reminder of the armed struggle in Ireland and beyond during the 1970s

A graphic reminder of a US labour movement pioneer inspires

Bernadette Hyland talks to DEBBIE MATHEWS, who was one of the women involved in campaigning to save Houghton Main coalmine in South Yorkshire, about a new book documenting their experiences

50 years ago SHEILA ROWBOTHAM wrote a landmark article about the real problems women had in society and in socialist parties. Bernadette Hyland talks to her about the continuing struggle for working-class women’s liberation

John Robins's book Guilty Until Proven Innocent explains why, says BERNADETTE HYLAND

There's much to learn from a book on the victory of the Trico women in 1976, says BERNADETTE HYLAND

There is a massive gap between well-off women who seeks to promote their books, their businesses and brands as ‘feminists’ and the real inheritors of suffragism and radical politics, says BERNADETTE HYLAND

Playwright TREVOR GRIFFITHS talks to Bernadette Hyland about the continuing significance of the 18th century radical Thomas Paine

Ruth and Eddie Frow scoured the country to preserve working-class history, writes BERNADETTE HYLAND