STEVEN ROSE is one of Britain's best-known scientists and he has written many popular books on science. He is a lifelong socialist and a politically committed activist, opposing the US war on Vietnam in the 1960s through to opposing the war on Iraq.
'From the hotel rooftop we can see the whole of Baghdad. As night falls sporadic gunfire starts. The city rests under an uneasy curfew.'
ISRAEL'S ASSAULT on Syria last weekend has ratcheted up the tensions in the Middle East.
Khadijah is three and half years old. Five weeks ago she was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumour.
Pravda (Truth) was a key part of the great wave of upheaval that swept Russia before the First World War. It was also important in taking forward the Russian Revolution of 1917.
OLAUDAH EQUIANO "The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship waiting for its cargo. I was carried on board."
I remember the night Roger Sylvester died in January 1999.
'Socialists, trade unionists and campaigners everywhere require a socialist newspaper. Socialist Worker proved with its coverage of the war, and the firefighters' dispute that it is an essential read.'
SOCIALIST WORKER went down a storm on last Saturday's anti-war demonstration. Not only did 5,000 people buy copies of the demonstration special, but our supporters also found some innovative ways of selling before and after. Huw, from Swansea, tells me that they started selling Socialist Worker before their coach even arrived in London. "Two of us put up a table in one of the service stations on the M4. We sold five copies in ten minutes. Then we were moved on by security."
HUGE NUMBERS of people marched through the streets of London last Saturday against the occupation of Iraq. Most wanted regime change too-here in Britain. The 100,000-strong protest was called by the Stop the War Coalition, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain, and took place on the eve of the Labour Party conference.
Millions of Labour supporters feel a growing distress at the direction the party has taken This feeling was reflected at a conference fringe meeting organised by the Socialist Campaign Group in Bournemouth on Monday evening. The speaker who really captured the sense of bitterness with New Labour was Bob Crow, leader of the RMT rail workers' union.
