Military families, including those with loved ones serving in Iraq, were set to lead Saturday’s Stop the War demonstration.
"I think that we have a good chance because people are disillusioned and dissatisfied with Labour," says Raghib Ahsan, Respect council candidate for Lozells & East Handsworth in Birmingham.
Thousands of activists will be heading to central London this July for Marxism 2006, five days of debate and discussion about radical politics today. Socialist Worker spoke to the event’s organisers about what’s new for this year.
Iran is being accused of breaking the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) by the West. The NPT is designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. It was originally signed by the US, the Soviet Union and Britain in 1968, and since by over 180 states.
Three years on from the most disastrous war of the past half century, we are sleepwalking towards a potentially even greater disaster. Iran is under threat from the "international community" for its supposed attempts to obtain nuclear weapons.
The unofficial strike by around 50 construction workers at Cottam power station near Nottingham against the exploitation of migrant workers was set to enter its third week after workers rejected a new offer from management.
The NUJ journalists’ union has won back union recognition on TSL Education, which runs the Times supplements.
Over 500 delegates attended the recall congress of the GMB union to discuss in detail the findings of the inquiry into allegations of corruption and fraud during the 2003 general secretary election.
Home secretary Jack Straw has invited US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to north west England.
A women’s delegation from the Palestinian town of Abu Dis visited Camden, north London, last week as part of the twinning project launched two years ago by the Camden-Abu Dis Friendship Association.
Miltary families in Birmingham Some 120 people came to hear Susan Smith, Rose Gentle, Linda Holmes, Billy Hayes and Salma Yaqoob on Thursday of last week in Birmingham. Linda Holmes’ son is in the Guards. He is due to go to Iraq in May with a further posting to Afghanistan. Linda said she had voted Labour all her life – but never again. She is coming on the demonstration on Saturday. Susan Smith said her son Phillip told her, "I don’t think we’re helping, mum." Four days later he was dead.
On the 9 and 10 April Italian voters will be called to the polls to judge the five years of Silvio Berlusconi’s government. On the face of it, they should have an easy task.
