Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
I FIRST met the late Denis Pye at a Raymond Williams Foundation event at Wortley Hall.
He was busy encouraging those who were not members to buy shares in the hall.
When he found out we had a mutual interest in co-operative ownership, we fell into conversation about the issues and challenges of owning assets for the movement.
Two inspring books — that’s your New Year’s musing from me on January 2 2026
RON JACOBS is enthralled by an account of the surveillance and political repression on the left in the US
ROS SITWELL reports from the Morning Star conference on ‘Race, Sex and Class Liberation’ last weekend
MAT COWARD tells the story of Edward Maxted, whose preaching of socialism led to a ‘peasants’ revolt’ in the weeks running up to the first world war



