Tony Benn discusses the founding of the Labour Party and the impact of nationalism, which has shaped the politics of Europe from the collapse of Empire, through two world wars and the present day
Recorded on 3 February 2013, in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. Part of Southbank Centre’s The Rest Is Noise festival.
History
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Thomas Sankara: ‘The Upright Man’
Opinion
My name is Will or Policeman as (arresting) model. Source: Southbanksteve - Wikicommon / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0
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Robert Lambert in the 1980s: Frankenstein’s monster grows up
History
Picture of the fights between revolutionaries and the royal military in the Breite Strasse Street, Berlin during the March 1848 revolution. Source: Wikicommon / public domain
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How the Great Revolutions Happened Part 8: The nineteenth-century age of revolutions: betrayal to red revolution 1830-1849
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Opinion
Donald Trump speaking at an Arizona for Trump rally in Glendale, Arizona. Source: Gage Skidmore - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0
19 Dec 2024