The 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital may offer a glimmer of hope that international relations do not need to be defined by endless confrontation, writes KENNY COYLE
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Jimmy Ruffin: The man who sang for broken-hearted miners
From Motown to the mining communities of Britain, Jimmy Ruffin will be missed, writes Peter Frost
The artist, who has just died, is embedded in the subconscious of the Palestinian people
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
The unwillingness of the British political elite to acknowledge that we are on the edge of a direct conflict with Russia leaves the peace movement with an urgent and onerous task
Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
Jimmy Ruffin, who died in Las Vegas a week ago aged 78, will be remembered for recording what is arguably Motown’s best and most memorable soul hit — What Becomes of the Brokenhearted.
However those of us involved in the epic miners’ strike of 1984 have more reason to remember and pay tribute to this great soul singer.
Having moved to Britain in 1984, Ruffin, along with Paul Weller, released the Council Collective single Soul Deep.
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