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Heathcote Williams RIP
Heathcote Williams, poet, playwright, essayist, lyricist, actor, artist, magician, political activist and much else besides, died 1 July 2017
The Canary Girls: How the munition workers were turned yellow by the war
Canary Girls, stained yellow by toxic chemicals, risked life and limb to supply ammunition to the frontline.
How World War I shaped the course of the black experience in the twentieth century
World War I brought about tremendous change for African Americans and their place in American society.
John Pilger on the Anzac death cult: the message is put out more flags or shut up
Opportunistic politicians and journalists have turned Anzac Day's melancholy event into a death cult, says John Pilger.
The first world war monument to end all war monuments - by glorifying endless war
The trick will be to get people in the 21st century to believe that the human sacrifice was for some good purpose — and that it could be again.
The lies that lay behind the catastrophic mass slaughter of World War One
More deliberate lies were told in WW1 than in any other period of history, and the whole apparatus of the state went into action to suppress the truth.
100 years of using war to try to end all war - time to try something else?
We will have to move beyond war to nonviolent conflict resolution, aid, diplomacy, disarmament, cooperation, and the rule of law.
Albert Einstein and the First World War
Einstein thought the first world war was madness and he was a lifelong pacifist and war resister.
