How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING

ANTI-FASCISTS gathered in London at the weekend to honour comrades, and to warn against the rising tide of the far right across Europe.
At the International Brigade Memorial Trust (IBMT) annual commemoration in London, family members and activists laid wreaths and flowers to remember the men and women who went to Spain in the 1930s to take on Franco’s rebel army, which was intent on overthrowing the democratically elected republican government.
Folk duo Na-Mara sang The Bite, based on the experiences of volunteer George Wheeler, who in a 2000 interview told of his “bite,” a small piece of wood placed in his mouth as he went into battle. He would clench it as a meagre defence against shell shock.

LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East

Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisele Pelicot, took part in a conversation with Afua Hirsch at London’s Royal Geographical Society. LYNNE WALSH reports

This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH

LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend