Popular uprisings in Poland and Hungary shake Moscow's hold on its eastern Europ
ean empire. Across the American South, and in the Union of South Africa, black p
eople risk their livelihoods, and their lives, in the struggle to dismantle inst
itutionalised white supremacy and secure first-class citizenship. France and Bri
tain, already battling anti-colonial insurgencies in Algeria and Cyprus, now fac
e the humiliation of Suez.
