British and US troops are turning away from confronting the Iraqi resistance – despite the rhetoric from Gordon Brown
More than three years after 19 year old Gordon Gentle was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, an inquest into his death finally opened on Monday.
‘We in Britain focus on the abuse committed by US troops in Iraq. But we are uncomfortable with what our own troops have been up to.
The strength and determination of the anti-war movement in Britain was clearly demonstrated at the Stop the War Coalition’s annual conference held in London last Saturday.
"The coverage of our strike has been brilliant. But I read Socialist Worker for more than that. The paper takes on the important arguments of the day, can explain why the world is the way it is, and most importantly, what we can do to change it."
Four Tower Hamlets Respect councillors resigned the Respect group whip last week.
The Socialist Workers Party has no intention of leaving Respect and will not be "splitting" from the coalition it helped create and to which it has been so central.
This evening a shocking email has been sent from Respect’s National Office without consultation under the headline “SWP leadership splitting from Respect”.
Over 200 restaurant employees and supporters marched through Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown on Thursday of last week. They demanded "an end to racial discrimination" and chanted "It’s no crime to work."
The right wing consensus that immigration leads to job losses and lower wages took a blow last week from a home office report. Immigrants now account for more than four million of the 37 million working age people in Britain.
Twenty two college lecturers in Northern Ireland are receiving back pay after an industrial tribunal found that they had been underpaid for five years.
