The fifth Viva Palestina convoy from Britain left London last Saturday. Hundreds of activists will join the convoy carrying medical aid to Gaza to beak the Israeli siege.
The union leaders’ powerful speeches at the TUC conference last week meant that millions of people in workplaces across Britain are talking about standing up to the Tories.
Hundreds of people are detained without charge in Britain. Some have been held for more than four years. Those incarcerated are not "terror suspects". Most are foreign nationals who committed a crime in Britain—but cannot be deported because they’ve come from a war zone. Ken Olende spoke to Mohammed and Walumba, who are being held in London’s Colnbrook detention centre
Socialist Worker spoke to Jerome Phelps, director of the London Detainee Support Group
You can hear the bulldozers from Mary McCann’s caravan. They are digging trenches and raking dirt over ground that, just days before, was home to seven families.
"In all the time I’ve lived here we’ve never had peace of mind. There’s always been the threat of eviction.
Constant & Co is the bailiff that evicted Travellers at the Hovefields site last week.
A century ago the streets of Cradley Heath emptied of smoke—and filled with joy. Some 1,000 women chainmakers stopped work and marched with their children through the Black Country town, singing, smiling and waving flags.
To fully appreciate the significance of the chainmakers’ victory, we need to understand the social conditions that existed 100 years ago.
The late comedian Bob Monkhouse said, "If you can fake the sincerity the rest is easy". As a mantra, it is as true of Tony Blair’s interminable memoir as is it of his political career.
‘The experience never goes away," says Paddy Hill. He still burns with anger at the British state 35 years after he was imprisoned for a bombing he did not commit.
