William Hague accused the Syrian regime of "cold-blooded cynicism" as reports of one of the bloodiest attacks of the uprising which is reported to have left 200 people dead fuelled calls for United Nations action.

On the 40th anniversary of the massacre in Derry, it is remarkable how much Britain has exploited this event to its advantage.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972, when British soldiers killed 14 demonstrators in Derry. Worth reading this interview with Eamonn McCann from Socialist Review

This is a cross-post from Tony Greenstein’s blog. The 30th Conference of PSC promised to be one of the more controversial PSC AGMs and it certainly lived up to it. Entering the conference, who was there giving out blue badges commemorating the massacre at Deir Yassin, but the eminence grise of the holocaust deniers, Paul

Turkey vehemently denies massacre of Armenians in what was then the eastern frontiers of the crumbling Ottoman empire, amounted to genocide

As the French Senate rushes to consider a bill that would penalise denial of the massacre of over 1 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire, Turkey is lobbying to stop the effort, warning of economic consequences. More »

Turkey has warned France of grave consequences should the French Senate pass a bill today (19 December) that would penalise denial of the massacre of over 1 million Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire. More »

Unbelievable. Obviously, they got direct orders from the White House on this one: Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation's Armed Forces at home. During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on We...

Gaddafi was buried this morning, but Libya's problems remain firmly above ground. The news emerging from the country is mostly grim: a possible massacre by anti-Gaddafi fighters; the hint of complicity on the part of Libya's new leadership; Saif Gaddafi's continuing elusiveness, and so on. Revolution and civil war are never done cleanly, sure. But just because the current situation ...

A clip from John Sayles’s magisterial film about the miners’ strike in West Virginia in 1920 that led to the Matewan massacre; and the subsequent battle of Blair Mountain. The Matewan battle was a key event in American labour history, as the mayor of the town, Sid Hatfield deputised a number of striking miners, and they had an