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Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
How Tony Benn helped create Radio One
KEITH FLETT explores one of history's little conundrums
On the anniversary of the implementation of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, ROGER McKENZIE warns that the legacy of black enslavement still looms in the Caribbean and beyond
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
RAMZY BAROUD explains why the world can no longer ignore Palestine
Starmer’s decision to suspend Diane Abbott yet again demonstrates a determination to maintain and propagate a hierarchy of racism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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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