Issue: 2264
Dated: 13 Aug 2011
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Riots, resistance and revolutions—that has been 2011 so far.
The government’s latest attempts to cover up torture are in crisis.
The British government and army covered up state sponsored right wing terrorism for over 35 years.
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"We will stand united against the EDL," declared a trade unionist at a 250-strong meeting in Wellington, Telford, last week.
"When the news of the Norway attacks came out most people’s first reaction was deep shock. Whatever the context, the massacre of so many young people in cold blood was horrific.
The Nazi British National Party (BNP) booted out its London regional secretary Chris Hurst last week after pictures emerged of him making "sieg heil" salutes.
There are just a few weeks left to fight a planned eviction of Travellers living at Dale Farm in Essex.
A report into Remploy, the government-supported programme that provides employment for disabled people, could sound the death knell for the firm’s 54 British factories.
If you go to an academy school you’re less likely to get high grades—and more likely to be excluded. That’s the finding of an equality impact assessment of the government’s academies bill.
The fight to save jobs at the rail manufacturing firm Bombardier in Derby is continuing.
Ministry of Defence (MoD) workers met last week to discuss how to fight government attempts to cut thousands of jobs.
Workers at the Honda car maker’s plant in Swindon will find out next week if management will move to further punish Unite union rep Paddy Brennan.
The monthly meeting of the recently-formed London’s Local Anti-Cuts Alliance took place on Wednesday of last week.
Lawyers acting for the family of a murdered private detective have called for a new public inquiry which could shed more light on corrupt relationships between the police and the media.
This is not the first time Tottenham has exploded in riots against police violence and oppression.
Tens of thousands of trade unionists from across Britain are set to descend on the Tory and Lib Dem party conferences.
The police, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have a long history of cover-ups.
Ed Miliband, the Labour Party leader elected with union members’ votes, has had an idea for how to make the party more "democratic".
The chief constable of Cleveland police and his deputy have been suspended by their police authority after being arrested by detectives investigating fraud and corruption.
Hundreds of social care workers at Southampton council struck on Wednesday of last week.
Council workers in Shropshire have voted by 74 percent to strike in an indicative ballot.
Council workers in Shropshire have voted by 74 percent to strike in an indicative ballot.
The Unite union branch secretary at Swindon Honda has added his backing to the campaign to reinstate sacked Sovereign bus convenor Abdul Omer Mohsin.
A man who claims police bullied him into changing his story to help jail three innocent men for murder thought officers would hurt him, a jury heard.
Around 100 people joined a march in Doncaster in support of journalists who are in their fourth week of an indefinite all-out strike against job cuts.
Twenty car valeters have won the final leg of a three-year battle to prove they are not self-employed.
Employers often use injuries sustained at work as a reason to force workers into taking early retirement.
Riots of the poor and dispossessed spread through Britain this week. The police struggled to crush an uprising against their own racist brutality and poverty.
By Monday evening the rioting had spread outside London.
"This timebomb has been ticking for a long time.
The political establishment, or those bits that have returned from holiday, has lined up to condemn the riots.
From the Tory right to the liberals, politicians are calling for the government to arm the police further in order to crush the rioters.
Anger against the police burst out in Tottenham, north London, last Saturday after a protest over the police killing of local black man, Mark Duggan.
Over 250 people gathered in Tottenham on Monday for a vigil for Mark Duggan.
Mark Duggan was killed by the police on Thursday of last week in north London.
Tottenham in Haringey is shaped by poverty and lack of opportunity. It is fuelling the anger behind the riots.
The killing of Mark Duggan is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
The rising against Tory Britain continued last night, Tuesday.
Tory prime minister David Cameron used his statement to parliament today to run through a shopping list of repressive measures.
African-Caribbean, white and asian people came together at the Socialist Workers Party public meeting 'From riot to revolution' in Tottenham last night (Wednesday).
The courts have launched an onslaught against poor, working class people in the aftermath of the riots that swept British cities.
Millions of Egyptians watched their former dictator, Hosni Mubarak, in a court cage last week. Many of us were speechless.
The Syrian state has killed more than 2,000 people over the past five months.
A helicopter crash in Afghanistan has killed 38 Western troops—30 of them from the US.
Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) is in crisis after its leader, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, sacked the entire executive body.
Thousands marched in the Chilean capital city Santiago on Thursday of last week in response to government attempts to ban student marches.
Thousands of protesters have re-taken the central square in Madrid to protest against the government’s continuing austerity plans.
The media has condemned the riots in London as mindless acts of destruction. The Sun newspaper screamed about an "orgy of mob violence".
Leon Trotsky paints a brilliant portrait of the last tsar, Nicholas II, in his great History of the Russian Revolution. He treats Nicholas’s weakness, malice, and stupidity as symptoms of a decaying regime.
The Berlin Wall was built 50 years ago this week, on 13 August 1961. For nearly 30 years, until its demolition in 1989, it served as a symbol of the division between the "free" West and the "Communist" East. The real story is a little more complicated.
The Berlin Wall completely cut off the Western part of the German capital from the Eastern part and all of surrounding East Germany. It spanned 87 miles and was built in four stages.
The victory of General Francisco Franco’s army over the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War is often presented as inevitable.
The world economy appears once again to be on the brink of disaster. The volatility that swept through markets in recent days is reminiscent of the panic of autumn 2008, when the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers collapsed.
Do ratings matter?
These are dark days for journalism. As corruption and scandal have spewed out of News International and onto the doorstep of Downing Street, via Scotland Yard, it’s been easy to forget that there is another side to the news.
Israel's protests need to break with Zionism Israelis are taking a lesson in democracy from the "Arab spring". Since 14 July there have been demonstrations taking place in Israel over housing. The housing crisis has been caused by developers and contractors holding back on building work to drive up rents and prices.