Simon Pottinger on 'A wave of student militancy': From France to China to Spain to Mexico to Kazakhstan, big student mobilisations over the system of university entrance (France, Spain), democracy and press freedom (China, Kazakhstan), and fee rises (Mexico). Tom Rigby on South Africa: Trade union strength roughly doubling in South Africa, over the two and a half years from September 1984 to early 1987. John O'Mahony on "Perdition": "I think Jim Allen's play Perdition, about the massacre of the Jews of Hungary in 1944, should be produced. Those Jews who have campaigned against its being...