The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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A century of cultural exchange: SCRSS marks 100 years
From EM Forster to the Soviet War Memorial, the society has fostered British-Russian understanding through turbulent times. Its legacy remains vital today, writes JANE ROSEN
George Bernard Shaw attends a socialist rally as part of the Fabian Society of which he is a founding member, June 1, 1905
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
A CENTURY ago this week, a group of people met at Caxton Hall, London and agreed that the Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the USSR (SCR) should be formed.
The purpose was, as the first stated object of the society explained, to collect and diffuse information in both countries on developments in Science, Education, Philosophy, Art, Literature, and Social and Economic Life.
The society was formed to fill a need. The year 1917 saw the first real victory of the working class with the success of the November Russian Revolution. This led to the formation of the first socialist state.
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