The Labour government has disgracefully blocked attempts to improve abortion law in Britain for the first time in 40 years.
It will come as no surprise to know that British troops helped the US to train the Georgian army. Or that Britain is providing assistance to the US-Ethiopian puppet regime in Somalia, a regime notorious for torture and massacre.
"This is the left’s once in a lifetime opportunity to push for radical change in the system.
The depth of the economic crisis and the urgent need for a response from the labour movement shaped a national meeting of elected delegates from Socialist Worker Party (SWP) branches last Sunday.
The billion-pound bailout of the banks has fuelled widespread bitterness over the way the system is letting ordinary people down.
With official inflation running at over 5 percent, many people in Glenrothes who spoke to Socialist Worker are clear that the government is more interested in saving banks than in helping ordinary people.
In an outrageous attack on trade union democracy, London bus operators have used anti-union laws to stop a strike that would have seen more than 14,000 drivers take action on Wednesday of this week.
Business secretary Baron Peter Mandelson this week threw down the gauntlet to the trade union movement by announcing that, in his view, Royal Mail should be "part privatised".
Some 270,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union are set for a national strike and a programme of hard-hitting industrial action after voting for action over pay.
Fighting fire cuts in Sedgley Campaigners fighting to save Sedgley fire station in the West Midlands have handed over a petition with 12,000 signatures opposing the closure to West Midlands Fire Authority.
Hotel chef Virgilio Teixira wins reinstatement
Evidence at the inquest into the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes by the Metropolitan Police continues.
