Anti-war school students in Edinburgh are kicking off the new school term with plans for a day long event in the city centre on Saturday 8 September.
"The opportunity of a lifetime" was how organisers described a tour by the Palestine under-19s football team culminating in a match against Blackburn Rovers’ youth team on 8 September.
The cat is finally out of the bag. Military commanders, politicians and newspaper headlines all now admit that Britain has lost the war in the south of Iraq.
The Manchester Mental Health branch Unison vote on action in defence of activist Karen Reissmann has seen a stunning 87.3 percent yes for strike action, on a 47 percent turnout. The first strikes likely to be bewtween Wednesday 29 August and Friday 31 August. There is also a demonstration called for Sunday 9 September.
Today Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust agreed to increase staffing levels on new community mental health teams. Unison union members claimed this as a massive victory, since staff on the teams were due to be cut from tomorrow, Thursday 16 August.
While the British and US governments may admit to "difficulties" in Iraq, they continue to try and sell the invasion of Afghanistan as "the good war".
Why is Gordon Brown still backing an occupation that has failed at every level, missed every target and brought misery to millions of people?
The media has dragged a small concession from the jaws of censorship. A coalition of British media organisations has won a limited victory in an appeal against restrictions imposed on reporting the Official Secrets Act (OSA) trial of David Keogh and Leo O’Connor.
Another week, and another six young British soldiers lie dead in the mire of Iraq and Afghanistan.
So far this month three people have died on construction sites in Britain. Stephen Griffiths fell to his death on a site in London on Monday of last week.
Respect has won a crucial council by-election in Shadwell, east London, fending off an attempt by New Labour to return its deposed local leader Michael Keith to the Tower Hamlets council chamber.
Pizza ‘slaves’ protest in Derby A protest against the exploitation of workers took place on Thursday of last week outside a pizza outlet in Derby.
