BOB NEWLAND, a former London Recruit, recommends the extraordinary memoir of struggle veteran Kingsley Mamobolo
Bob Newland


BOB NEWLAND relishes a fascinating read as well as an invaluable piece of local research

BOB NEWLAND welcomes a clear-eyed account that counts the human cost of the Irish Republican struggle for both sides

BOB NEWLAND admires the tactics of a punchy exhibition that advocates awareness of Third World debt its neocolonial injustice

BOB NEWLAND recommends a phenomenal exposure of US-sponsored terrorism and destabilisation in Africa

BOB NEWLAND recommends an environmental thriller that uses as background the troubling realities of South Africa and Ireland

BOB NEWLAND recommends a book that challenges many erroneously held views on conservationism

Peter Hain knew well apartheid's vulnerabilities and used this knowledge to seriously undermine the regime’s international reputation

BOB NEWLAND welcomes the acquittal of Eta-member-turned-peace-negotiator Josu Urrutikoetxea, who was facing terrorism charges in a French court despite a supposed guarantee of immunity

The lead negotiator who brought the long armed struggle of the Basque separatist group ETA to an end now faces criminal charges from the French state. BOB NEWLAND raises the alarm on a dangerous precedent

BOB NEWLAND shines a light on the case of Josu Urrutikoetxea, who helped bring about an end to Basque armed conflict but who now languishes in jail facing charges of ‘criminal conspiracy with terrorist intent’