The film of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code opened the Cannes film festival this week to universal critical panning. The response to the book was somewhat better, but no one argues that either version is great art.
University lecturers’ action in defence of their pay claim had forced employers back to the negotiating table as Socialist Worker went to press.
Postal workers have voted in huge numbers to reject their bosses’ agenda and have moved closer to a national strike ballot over pay.
They came for my brother Saqib at 8am when he was still sleeping. My mother found two vans of police and immigration officers preparing to break our front door down.
A leading trade unionist and anti-racist in Merseyside was almost blinded on Thursday of last week in a horrific knife attack. The attack took place at his home in front of his two young daughters.
It seemed certain as Socialist Worker went to press that the government would win the third reading of its Education Bill on Wednesday of this week – but only with Tory support.
Saqib Almas spoke to Socialist Worker from inside Harmondsworth detention centre. "I feel like I have been kidnapped by the state," he said.
The US military in Afghanistan celebrated an air strike on a village this week which they claim killed 20 Taliban fighters.
Fifty seven breaches in safety have occurred at British nuclear plants since 1997. In the last year there were three such breaches at the Sellafield plant in Cumbria, including the large leak of highly radioactive nuclear fuel which forced the closure of the Thorp reprocessing plant.
One of the areas set for a new nuclear plant is Sellafield in Cumbria. But the nuclear plant already there has generated a lot of opposition.
A leading Iranian human rights campaigner and Nobel Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, is bringing her campaign against an attack on Iran to London after a successful tour of the US.
New Labour MPs showed their contempt for military families on Monday of this week by voting overwhelmingly to threaten life imprisonment for military personnel who refuse to participate in the occupation of subjugated territories.
