Details of Barack Obama’s new strategy for the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan make for grim reading.
Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker who has been held in jail for over four years, won a small taste of justice last week. The Metropolitan Police admitted to beating him up in December 2003 and paid him £60,000 in compensation.
The US government this week agreed to hand over another $1 trillion to the banks as part of an effort to "unblock" the financial system.
"Popular anger around the world is growing as a result of rising unemployment, pay cuts and freezes, bailouts for banks, and falls in house prices and the value of savings and pension funds."
Newspaper headlines that talk of zero inflation are masking two crucial facts – prices for many essential goods are rising fast, and the poor are paying a bigger proportion of their incomes for them.
Gordon Brown wants working class people to pay for the government’s growing budget deficit by cutting pay, slashing jobs and axing services.
Brian Roper, the disgraced vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan university, has resigned.
Police blocked and attacked students at Rome’s La Sapienza university preventing them from leaving the campus in order to join a trade union rally in the city on Wednesday.
"We know you've got the money – save London Met." That was the demand of workers and students on Wednesday of this week as they lobbied a meeting of governors at London Metropolitan university.
Tube workers packed into an RMT union mass meeting in London on Thursday of last week. They are preparing to take on London Underground bosses.
The inspirational occupation of the Prisme packaging factory in Dundee is winning huge support from the people of the city and far beyond.
