The Dunfermline Building Society has collapsed and is to be put on the market by the government, BBC Scotland learns.

Around 3.2 million people crammed into the upper hall of ULU on Sunday morning to hear SWP national secretary, Martin Smith (pictured) debate Socialist Party deputy general secretary, Hannah Sell, on building a revolutionary party in the 21st century. That the SWP agreed to send a representative along to Socialism was certainly a welcome development, having been some years since the comrades had s...

Turkey's prime minister has warned that he might deport up to 100,000 Armenians living in Turkey without citizenship, after resolutions were passed by US and Swedish lawmakers defining First World War-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.

    One Million people on Terrorist-Watch in the USA. There are one million on the USA Terorist Watch List. One million was also the USA prison population in 1990. It became 2 million in 2002. Meanwhile, back in Blighty One million was the number on the UK Police's DNA Database in March 2003 was 2 million. By 2005 that figure was 5.5 million - 1 in 20 people. Perversely, our Home Of...

Labour Councillors have called on Westminster City Council’s Chief Executive, Mike More, to mount a full-scale investigation in to why the Council sold a Grade II listed house in Monmouth Road, Bayswater, which has been vacant for over 2 years, for £1.95 million in June 2010 and which is now back on the market for £2.6 million with an offer in for around £2.4 million, despi...

Confidence in Turkey's long-term economic prospects is growing but further labour market reforms, increased spending on education, better transparency of public finances and a more credible monetary policy are required if the country is to maintain its recent impressive growth, according to Rauf Gönenç, the senior officer responsible for Turkey at the Organisation for Economic Coo...

Barack Obama's project of building a "model partnership" with Turkey faced its biggest test to date as a US congressional panel voted on a resolution describing the Ottoman-era massacres of some 1.5m Armenians as genocide

Der Spiegel reports that German experts have confirmed that the Turkish military used chemical weapons against Kurds, who may have been PKK insurgents. Given the nature of the fighting, it's almost certain that a number of innocent civilians were killed. Turkey has almost 12 million Kurds - oh, excuse, me 'mountain Turks' because Turkey does not allow them to be referred to as Kurds...

What's a revolutionary habit? This, apparently: "giving a full play to the revolutionary habit of living in a cultural and emotional manner". How very unlike our own dear bedsit Maoists. Meanwhile, "Personages of various strata in south Korea held a press conference in Seoul on Nov. 19". I'm planning on meeting personages of various strata at the pub later. And one from a few days ago: "...

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