I think there is at least a 50:50 risk of some sort of real crisis, probably with military action, in Iran before the end of next year.
Next week sees the third anniversary of the great London demonstration against war in Iraq of 15 February 2003. Andrew Murray, chair of the Stop the War Coalition, and leading anti?war activist Jane Shallice look back.
The Turner report into the future of the state pension system this week will call for the state pension age to rise to 67 and the money saved to be used to restore the link between earnings and pensions.
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilisation, famously replied, "I think it would be a good idea."
Everyone is agreed that the clock is ticking for Tony Blair. Beyond that nothing is clear. Blair himself was this week hunkering down at a special cabinet meeting to launch what was trailed as a "fightback".
In his conference speech last week Tony Blair complained in Orwellian style that "We are trying to fight 21st century crime with 19th century methods, as if we still lived in the times of Dickens." The truth is the opposite.
A letter in last week’s Socialist Worker asked what evidence there was for the figure of over 100,000 dead in Iraq, which has frequently been quoted in this paper.
Whenever there is occupation there is resistance. All nations have experienced this. Resistance to occupation is legal, legitimate and acceptable.
The fall last week of Mauritania’s leader, president Taya, emphasised how fragile the US’s control is over much of the world.
There is no doubting the reactionary nature of the House of Windsor — out of date, snobbish, prejudiced and utterly out of touch with reality.
This is an edited translation of a reply by the deputy editor of Liberazione, the daily paper of Italy’s Rifondazione Comunista, to Toni Negri, the anti-capitalist writer. Negri said in the French newspaper Libération that French people should vote yes to the European Constitution in the referendum on 29 May.
In a series of meditations the Nicaraguan poet and priest Ernesto Cardenal described the "kingdom of god" as a socialist society. Twenty years later, in 1979, Cardenal and three other Catholic priests became ministers in a Sandinista government which came to power through revolution.
