Reform

Born on this day, Ernest Jones fought for democracy and freedom across the world "Rise to freedom!

The story of how radicals in Czechoslovakia tried to democratise Soviet rule It’s not often that Spring begins in January… But that’s exactly what happened in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968, when Alexander Dubček became – mouthful alert – First Secretary of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

It's a word we throw around a lot... but what do we actually mean? Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848.