The Organising for Fighting Unions conference on Saturday 11 November will see hundreds of activists debate the future of the labour movement.
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) annual meetings just completed in Singapore were a disaster for the Third World, especially Africans who face a dramatic decline in voting shares on the IMF board, at the same time a few middle-income countries led by China recapitalise the institutions.
The most striking aspect of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks on Islam at Regensburg on 12 September was the way they harmonised with George Bush and Tony Blair’s propaganda line on the Middle East.
A clamour is growing to send United Nations (UN) troops to Darfur in western Sudan - whether the Sudanese government agrees or not.
He who half makes a revolution digs his own grave. Those words from the great French revolutionary Saint-Just don’t appear to have made much of an impression on the well read chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown.
It is time to act. Over the last 20 years the scientists have organised themselves globally to sound the alarm.
The amount of money spent on communications by the government has trebled since it came to power in 1997. The biggest single increase in this astonishing figure has been at the ministry of defence.
This weekend’s meeting to discuss launching a new party in Scotland provides a great chance for the socialist movement to throw down a challenge to the parties of the political establishment.
‘The exhibition looks at how children are affected by the virus. Not all the children were HIV positive themselves. You can have parents who die of the virus and obviously that has a huge impact on the children.
‘There were three big issues for me that came out of the conference. The first is accountability of the political leaderships that were there.
The start of the British summertime came with a spate of stabbing incidents, reported in lurid detail, and a national police knife amnesty intended to get these weapons off our streets.
Tommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) MSP and the most charismatic and well-known politician in Scotland, won a fantastic victory in his defamation case against the News of the World.
