The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger portrays British Marxist cultural commentator John Berger over a period of five years.
Britain
I know exactly where I was on August 9, 2007. It was a hot summer鈥檚 day 鈥 鈥渄ebtonation day鈥.
Bankers all over the world had lost their collective nerve and refused to lend to each other. The globally synchronised financial system froze, and began its descent into sustained failure. It then took more than a year, and Lehman Brothers鈥 collapse, before the world understood the gravity of the crisis.
Ten years on, that slow-motion crisis, a prolonged period of disinflation, noflation and deflation, is still playing out.
Britain Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, has said he is saddened by the violence and loss of life in Venezuela, 鈥渆ither of those on the streets or of the security forces who have been attacked by those on the streets鈥.
鈥淰iolence is not going to solve the issues,鈥 Corbyn told the media, at the end of a local party meeting in the southern English town of Crawley. He said there has to be dialogue and a process that respects Venezuela's institutions, including the independence of the judiciary.
In June 1940, Winston Churchill described the German rout of the French, Belgian and British armies and the seaborne evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in northern France as a 鈥渃olossal military disaster鈥.
For a nation whose national identity is intimately bound up with victory and conquest, it is paradoxical that the retreat from Dunkirk has become such an important part of British mythology.
Nuclear weapons are in the news again, for all the wrong reasons. But the adoption of a new United Nations treaty could kickstart a re-energised effort to abolish these expensive, dangerous and immoral weapons.
On July 7, the UN General Assembly adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the nuclear ban treaty. It was voted in by 122 countries, with only one country voting against.
However, all nine nuclear weapon states, and most nuclear umbrella states, failed to attend the treaty negotiations and boycotted the vote.
Disparaged and smeared by the Labour Party machine and corporate media for almost two years, Momentum 鈥 a grassroots group of Labour members committed to the socialist politics of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn 鈥 came out fighting during the campaign for the June 8 general elections.
Spurred on by a sense of idealism, this campaign came close to sweeping Labour into government on the most transformative manifesto for a generation.
Disabled people faced off with armed police at Parliament on July 19 as they were told their T-shirts exposing the savage nature of Tory cuts were off-limits, the next day.
The campaigners were there to lobby MPs over the horrendous toll the Conservatives鈥 austerity and blitz on essential benefits has had on disabled people. The rally was part of a week of action organised by Disabled People Against Cuts to flag up the brutal nature of the attacks.
Labour leader J聽has challenged Prime Minister Theresa May to allow people to self-identify as transgender without having to go through medical checks, on July 19.
The socialist politician pledged that Labour would support any government attempt to change the law.
"Social justice isn't copyrighted," British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn told Naomi Klein聽in an聽聽published at聽The Intercept聽on Thursday.
Nearly one in five frontline firefighter jobs have been cut since 2010, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said, the on July 6.
The union has warned that continued 鈥渟avage鈥 cuts seriously threaten public safety. It said a post-war record of 11,000 jobs had gone in the past seven years. The cuts include almost 8000 full-time firefighters and nearly 3000 鈥渞etained鈥 (on-call) workers.
In Northern Ireland 鈥 the partitioned statelet made up of the six Irish counties still claimed by Britain 鈥 the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is the largest unionist party (supporters of an ongoing 鈥渦nion鈥 with Britain).
Survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster are not being offered suitable accommodation by Kensington and Chelsea Council, on July 6, as British Communities Secretary Sajid Javid announced yet another taskforce would be sent in to cover the calamitous Tory local authority鈥檚 failings.
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