A former election candidate for the Nazi British National Party (BNP) and a dentist have appeared in court on explosives charges.
Racist attacks on Muslims continued this week across the country in the wake of the tide of Islamophobia set off by Jack Straw’s comments on the veil earlier this month.
Staff and students at Dundee university are campaigning against the presence of police officers from Special Branch on the campus.
Hysteria over Muslims and the veil from the media and politicians has led to debate in many workplaces.
The Stop the War Coalition has called a People’s Assembly on Islamophobia and the "war on terror" on Saturday 18 November. The Muslim community is facing a racist onslaught from politicians and the media.
Around 1,000 people attended a lobby of parliament this morning over state pensions.
Respect MP George Galloway has lashed out at the government for overturning a House of Lords amendment to its Police and Crime Bill that would have blocked "fast track" extraditions of British citizens to the US.
Some 30,000 Royal Mail workers across London will begin a consultative ballot on Tuesday which could lead to major strikes before Christmas.
On Tuesday 31 October, Parliament will debate and vote on the Iraq war for the first time since March 18 2003. Alex Salmond, one of the MPs who initiated the debate, says: "This is the first time since the invasion of Iraq that the government can be held to account over this illegal and unwanted war."
Over 150 women attended a dayschool on Marxism and Women’s Liberation organised by the Socialist Workers Party on Saturday 28 October.
Join the anti fascist rally outside Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday 1 November.
The injustice of the government’s process of secret hearings for the deportation of terrorist suspects should be obvious to everyone after a barrister revealed that MI5 had offered contradictory evidence against two men.
