George Bush plans to ramp up funding for the military and police while slashing healthcare and welfare, according to budget plans for 2008 announced on Monday of this week.
The terror raids carried out in Birmingham last week highlight once again the manner in which the Muslim community is being victimised.
Across England new people are getting involved in building the 24 February demonstration called by Stop the War, CND and the British Muslim Initiative.
The violence engulfing Iraq is having a terrible effect on the mental health of ordinary people there, especially children, says a new report released by the Association of Iraqi Psychologists (AIP).
Hilary Benn, the government’s international development secretary, likes to pose as a champion of the world’s poor.
It was revealed last week that during 2003-4 the British army sent fifteen 17-year olds to fight in Iraq.
Workers at the Simclar Group, an electronic components firm in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, occupied their factory last weekend in protest at the company’s plans to close and asset strip the plant.
Striking teaching assistants and school support staff were today picketing outside a Coventry primary school.
Birmingham Respect councillor Salma Yaqoob will be on BBC1's Question Time at 10.35pm tonight, Thursday 8 February. Among other topics, she is likely to be talking about the war on a terror, in a week when many of her own voters feel increasingly threatened.
What ought to be a high-profile trial concerning explosives and a massive haul of chemicals begins tomorrow (Monday). It will be interesting to see how the media handle it.
Respect supporters from across the north west of England flocked to Preston last Sunday to get Respect councillor Michael Lavalette's campaign for re-election off to a buoyant start.
A packed meeting of south west Birmingham Respect took place on Tuesday of last week, in order to select a candidate for the May elections.
