We are aware of the problems of Iran, but the way to solve these is not by resorting to war.
Over 2,000 Australian troops have been sent to East Timor in the last fortnight as part of an international "peacekeeping force" along with troops from Malaysia, New Zealand and Portugal.
Last year the election of George Galloway was hailed as a bridgehead for Respect – one that had to be consolidated and extended. This May we succeeded in doing that. In east London and Birmingham Respect is breathing down the neck of New Labour.
It will soon be a year since the defeat of the European Union (EU) constitution in the French referendum. That marked the beginning of a series of defeats for the neo-liberal agenda in Europe that has sent a paroxysm of rage through the global business establishment.
The continuing carnage in Iraq three years after the invasion is damaging George Bush’s popularity at home. Part of this is due to publicity around the mounting death toll for US troops. But failure carries a particularly heavy stigma in a context where success has been hailed as implying virtue, and even heavenly approval.
I don’t suppose that sitting in the New Labour cabinet is one of the most comfortable places to park your backside at the moment. I have a sense that they’re losing the one thing that the real rulers of the country want them to have—ideological control.
It’s worth reminding ourselves that it is less than a year since Tony Blair won his historic third general election victory—and already he is in real trouble.
The great success of this week’s pension strike rattled Tony Blair and his iron chancellor Gordon Brown. That’s why, hours into the action, they were forced to offer talks to the unions.
The magnificent demonstration last Saturday was the best possible answer to a warmongering government and its many allies in the media.
Tony Blair is in the final days of his premiership. The crises that are now swirling around him are multiple – and that’s always a sign of the end of a parliamentary regime.
The Labour Party once stood for providing free education and equal access to state schooling. It once stood for low cost public housing as an escape route from the slums that scarred our towns and cities.
The death of Slobodan Milosevic, fittingly dubbed "the butcher of the Balkans", has provoked much sanctimonious commentary. Some of this has been hypocritical, uttered by figures blind to Britain’s butchery in Iraq, and to that of its acolytes abroad, such as Israel’s Milosevic, Ariel Sharon.
