Leaders from around the world gather in Montreal, Canada, this week for the UN climate conference. They will be discussing the Kyoto agreement which George Bush has refused to sign up to.
Women and men across the world joined together at events on Friday of last week to mark the International Day Against Violence Against Women. This provided a timely reminder that campaigning against violence against women is not specific to one country, but of global concern — violence against women is completely unacceptable, wherever it takes place.
The reality is that there is no pensions crisis, or at least not in the way we’re told.
Tony Blair is planning to replace Britain’s current nuclear weapons system, Trident.
In an act of barbarism, police descended on the Harare World Aids Day march on Thursday 1 December, and ordered the marchers to disperse. Five of the protest's organisers were arrested and have not yet been released. These are Munyaradzi Gwisai of the International Socialist Organisation, Mao Nyikadzino of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA), Sostain Moyo of Zimbabwe Activists Against Aids and Anna and Gladys from the Women Aids Support Network (WASN).
The five Zimbabwean activists held after Thursday's World Aids day march in Harare have now been released by the police.
The campaign in Glasgow to defend refugees has helped bring refugees and people living on the housing estates, together and stopped a number of people from being deported.
Around 26,000 lecturers at over 200 colleges struck on Wednesday of last week over pay, and hundreds demonstrated in Birmingham as education secretary Ruth Kelly visited the city.
Terminal 5 Workers employed by Laing O’Rourke at the Terminal 5 construction site, Heathrow, unanimously rejected a pay rise of 22 pence an hour at a mass meeting last week.
"I am here today not just for my own family, who face deportation, but for all the children in the world facing deportation."
