Photo Galleries
Sanctuary City
Vulewya and her 4-year-old son TT, who live in block set aside for asylum seekers in Red Road. "I like Glasgow. I don't like this area." Agnes McDermott (76) and Agnes McDonald (84) - Sighthill neighbours who have seen lots of changes - and their homes threatened - over the decades. "We just want people to live here," says McDermott. Lamees Tayyem, a Palestinian who grew up in Syria, has made a home for her sons in Sighthill and gained refugee status in 2006. "I like Glasgow; I like Scotland. It suits my character." Leo and Elena Saidenough, Russian refugees living in the Kingsway flats and now studying in Glasgow. "There is a community that is fantastic and has done so much for us," says Leo. Jean Donnachie and Noreen Real - friends in the Kingsway estate who decided to help their asylum seeking neighbours escape the UKBA's dawn raids. "When they came it made the whole place vibrant again," says Noreen.Red Star Rising
Dictator at play, the off-the-record pictures of stalin, by his personal secret agent lt general nikolai vlasik, known as “Stalin’s faithful dog”, caused a great stir in russia when they finally emerged in the early 1960s. Blue blouse, red victory a gouache and montage artwork promoting one of the ‘Blue blouse’ political theatre groups in the early 1920s. they took their agitational productions to workers in the factories and fields. Sacrifices for the future, “we are building a fleet of airships in the name of lenin.” a poster by georgii kibardin from 1931 with text in old-style azerbaijanian. Lenin’s fury, the full force of lenin’s fury as depicted by ukrainian artist adolf strakhov on the cover of the life of lenin is the story of the RKP (russian communist party). Watching over moscow, a gigantic sculpture of lenin by sergei merkurov rules the centre of moscow in the late 1930s.Climate crisis photos unveiled
Helena Christensen speaks with Andres Huilla Mendoza, a farmer from the Huacarpay community on her trip to Peru with Oxfam. Helena Christensen travelled to Peru with Oxfam to photograph for an exhibition on climate change Homes in the Pacchanta community Pacchanta kids pile into the wheelbarrowThe Arabs of '48
Wehbe Badarni, union organiser at the Laborer's Voice Qamar Daher, student at Haifa University Fuad Farah, Christian-Arab leader in Nazareth Mohammed Abu Haija, elder of the village of Ayn Hawd A makeshift protest mosque in Nazareth's Old City, directly below the Church of the Annunciation, one of Christianity's holiest sitesThis week's issue
Competition Winner
The five lucky winners of the SimplyLive.com Kiss USB Stick competition are: Mr Luke Smith, Swansea; Joe Thomas, Southampton; Alister Strachan, Inverurie; Andrew Robinson, Dundee; Agnes Carmichael, Bellshill
