Gordon Brown turned up the heat on Iran this week by threatening serious consequences if the country did not comply with US demands to ditch its nuclear programme.
Respect’s annual national conference is going ahead on Saturday of next week – despite attempts to prevent it from happening.
Over 250 people attended a national council of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) last Saturday to discuss the crisis engulfing Respect and the way forward for the left in Britain.
Salvinder Dhillon has stood for Respect in Ealing Southall and Southall Green in west London, coming second to Labour in last year’s local elections. He is a Respect candidate for the London assembly.
A Respect-backed fundraising event in Preston Lancashire raised over £50,000 for orphans in Palestine on Saturday of last week.
Nearly 3,000 people demonstrated in Edinburgh last Saturday against the renewal of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons.
To say that the police officers who followed 27 year old electrician Jean Charles de Menezes into a London tube train "undermined his health and safety" is something of an understatement.
"Socialist Worker has been at the forefront of campaigning and fighting against racism, both in the past and in the present. It’s vital in the fight against racism that we support such a paper."David Okoro, cousin of Anthony Walker, murdered by racists in Liverpool in 2005
At the same time as Gordon Brown announces further plans to roll back civil liberties, Scotland’s highest profile human rights lawyer faces jail for comments made after defending his client in a terror trial.
Thousands of journalists across Britain and Ireland protested against worsening conditions in their industry this week, taking part in a series of events and demonstrations called by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ).
A march and rally in support of Freemantle care workers in Barnet, north west London has been organised by the local Unison union branch.
Year six of the "war on terror" has produced warnings of war on Iran and plans for US military bases in Lebanon that threaten Syria and the Lebanese resistance.
