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How Tony Benn helped create Radio One
KEITH FLETT explores one of history's little conundrums
As Cuba faces the most dangerous moment in its recent history, Britain must do more than condemn the US blockade at the United Nations, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, chair of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign
The Together Alliance is hosting two summits, North and South, to build power and plan action against the scourge of racism peddled by the right. DANIEL KEBEDE urges mass participation
Morning Star assistant business manager BERNADETTE KEAVENEY and international editor ROGER McKENZIE remember attending the 2001 TUC, suspended midweek after news of the World Trade Centre attacks
Whether it’s dented bike frames or broken ferries, MATT KERR wishes politicians had the same steely staying power of elite engineering instead of chasing disposable self-importance
The events of 9/11 reverberated across the United States and then the world. JOHN WIGHT remembers the eerie atmosphere that exposed racial divisions at the heart of Hollywood
AT MIDNIGHT on August 14 1967, the Marine Offences Act made broadcasting from a boat off the British mainland illegal.
That meant the end for most of the pirate radio stations that had broadcast, primarily off the Essex coast, since 1964, although Radio Caroline continued and was joined for a period by Radio North Sea which was run from the Netherlands.
Many of the DJs on the pirate ships went on to work for BBC Radio One, which was set up as the official alternative, including of course John Peel.
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