Most of us do not need to read the many reports coming out of the European Union, government departments and think-tanks to tell us there has been a rise in Islamophobia in Britain since 9/11 and the beginning of the "war on terror".
Arrested on the wishes of the US. Thrown in jail for the past three and a half years. Threatened with extradition on trumped up "terrorism" charges. And now it has been revealed that the police bugged his meetings with his MP.
Railway track maintenance by Network Rail is so poor that it could be putting passengers’ lives at risk.
Across Birmingham council workers gathered on Tuesday morning to strike and protest against wage cuts.
Over 3,500 strikers attended a lively rally in Birmingham city centre. Large groups of homecare workers and teaching assistants joined manual and office workers in demanding the deal is scrapped.
Single status was sold to council workers across Britain as a deal that would bring equal pay for women.
The sixth Cairo Conference will be a key event for the global anti war movement.
A US helicopter gunship has killed 13 Iraqi civilians in the town of Iskandriyah. The US claims that some of its troops came under fire from "gunmen" in the area 30 miles south of Baghdad.
The occupation is crumbling, the country is on the edge of a humanitarian disaster and the Nato alliance is falling apart. That is the assessment of three reports into the war on Afghanistan six years on from the US invasion.
The OILC and RMT unions are fighting against oil workers being "NRBd" (not required back) on platforms in the North Sea.
Shell oil last week unveiled annual profits of £13.9 billion – the highest recorded profits for any British-listed company.
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will be visiting London on Wednesday 6 February. She is coming to talk to prime minister Gordon Brown about Afghanistan. Stop the War has called a protest from 12 noon until 3.30pm on Whitehall, by the entrance to Downing Street.
