Lindsey German is the convenor of the Stop the War Coalition.
LAST WEEK’S Socialist Worker, highlighting the arrest and brutal treatment of Baber Ahmad, won a lot of respect for sellers around the country.
First came the letters to local papers from grieving relatives. Then, in ones and twos, young deserters began to slip across the border to Canada.
"PETER MANDELSON is widely hated across Hartlepool," says John Bloom, the Respect coalition candidate for the forthcoming by-election in Hartlepool. "People feel he came here, used the place, then scuttled off when something better came up."
Respect supporters were out in the Millwall ward of Tower Hamlets, east London, over the weekend, leafleting door to door, as the campaign for the council by-election there got underway.
HAROLD ROSEN I was born into a Jewish Communist family in the US, just after the First World War.
A GROUP of workers, sick of working 60 hours a week, go on strike over union rights and become an inspiration to other workers. That was what truck drivers in Minneapolis in the US Midwest did in 1934.
NHS workers are on the sharp end of New Labour’s attacks on the public sector. This autumn they will vote on whether to accept the sweeping changes to pay and contracts in the government’s Agenda for Change deal.
Eighty years after his death, Lenin is still getting a bad press.
THE government’s Agenda 2010 policy in Germany threatens the biggest attack on the welfare state since the Second World War.
SOCIALIST WORKER sellers are reporting a good response from civil service workers who are facing a government attack.
What is striking about last week’s dossier, released by three men from Tipton in the West Midlands, is the detail. It came out just as four French people were released. Two of them reportedly told their lawyers a similar story.
