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Other highlights are an investigation into the reasons for spiralling food prices, the reasons why five women chose abortion and their experiences thereof and how the perspective of some of the original radicals of the 1970's have changed over the years.

Monday 12 May - 8 - 8.30pm - ITV1 - Tonight: End of Cheap Food

On Saturday 7th July 2001 July police entered Tivoli Gardens in Downtown Kingston, the Jamaican capital, looking for guns that had killed Willy Haggart, the gang leader, or don, of nearby Arnett Gardens, an event that had resulted in weeks of intermitant gang violence between supporters of both parties in the West Kingston areas Hannah Town and Denham Town.

Dieter Nelles
"The Foreign Legion of the Revolution“[1]
German anarcho-syndicalist and Volunteers in Anarchist Militias during the Spanish Civil War

1. The Anarchist Federation is an organisation of revolutionary class struggle anarchists. We aim for the abolition of all hierarchy, and work for the creation of a world-wide classless society: anarchist communism.

Other politically slanted programmes investigate concepts of sexual normalcy, erosion of civil liberties in the UK and the undiluted focus of Christian fundamentalists in the US.

Monday 5 May - 11pm - 12 midnight - BBC2 - Am I Normal? - Sex

On, February 1st, I got a call from Ruth Benn that Ralph DiGia, 93, had died at St. Vincent's in New York City. I had visited him recently and sensed he was losing his battle - he had fallen and broken a hip about two weeks before, got an infection in the hospital (hospitals in the US are notoriously dangerous places for the sick and .wounded to go!), and despite rallying several times, died.

Higher education is going through significant transformations on an international, or at least European, level. The UK is not immune to these changes. Whilst there have been various small protests in places around the country to resist these changes, no major local campaign has existed as of yet. Sussex not 4 Sale was born out of this context.

Other highlights include an investigation into UN corruption, an analysis of the Algiers Airport hi-jacking of 1994 and a stimulating radio discussion of the intellectual underpinnings of the revolution in Paris in 1968.

Monday 28 April - 8 - 8.30pm - ITV1 - Tonight: Bad Manners Britain

The United States has once again surpassed its own world record for incarcerating the highest percentage of its population. According to a report released by the Bureau of Prison Statistics, one out of every 32 adults was in prison, in jail, on probation, or on parole at the end of 2005.

Friday, 15 February 2008
Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release

City Escalates Its War on the Poor
Mass Disconnections from Electricity at Gun Point in the Kennedy Road Settlement

[b]On 28 September 2007 around 3 000 Abahlali baseMjondolo members marched on the mayor of Durban, Obed Mlaba. In previous Abahlali baseMjondolo marches mock coffins were carried and local councillors symbolically buried as a rejection of their top down party authority over bottom up people's power.

Other picks of the weeks political viewing explore issues of child criminality, organised child fights, immigration, terrorism and Forces homelessness.

Monday 21 April - 8 - 8.30pm - ITV1 - Tonight: Jail My Child

by Michael Neocosmos

Abstract

A commitment to justice and democratic governance requires that we listen carefully as much as we speak loudly and act decisively.