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PETER FROST remembers a British defeat in our colonial wars
A depiction of Lts Melvill and Coghill fleeing the Battle of Isandlwana with the Queen’s Colour, taken from the Illustrated London News
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
ONE hundred and forty years ago, in the early weeks of 1879, the proud British army, busy painting the globe pink as Queen Victoria’s empire grew and grew, received a huge and embarrassing setback.
The battle of Isandlwana was fought in rainy midsummer.
Remember this is the southern hemisphere where January and February are the hottest, steamiest months.
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