Tom works in the Stop the War Coalition office and deals with the delegates to the 10 December peace conference.
Nitin Sawhney is joining the Rachid Taha Band, Brian Eno, Imogen Heap and former Clash guitarist Mick Jones this Sunday for a mammoth Stop the War fundraising gig at the Astoria in Charing Cross Road, London. He spoke to Yuri Prasad about music, racism and the war.
There is a plan to steal your retirement and to turn the clock back 50 years to when workers died soon after they retired.
Men dragged from detention centres in the middle of the night. At the airport about a third are selected and are forcibly bundled onto a clandestine flight. When they touch down they are in the place from where they had fled torture and persecution.
The "war on terror" has come home to Imperial College. Students are astonished by a sinister new dress code imposed by the university authorities "in the light of security concerns raised by the terrorist incidents which occurred over the summer".
Reports have recently come out in the mainstream press about the use of white phosphorus by troops in Iraq. These reports aren’t new — just over a year ago they were coming out from human rights organisations and medics and journalists that white phosphorus, napalm and other agents were being used.
Privatising the second pension Workers will be enrolled into a second pension scheme on top of the basic state pension.
Hundreds of protesters marched through Oxford last Saturday to demand investment in the NHS and an end to privatisations.
New Labour’s stealthy rehabilitation of nuclear power continued this week.
Babar campaign vows to fight on Babar Ahmad’s family and friends have vowed to fight all the way against home secretary Charles Clarke’s decision last week to extradite him to the US on bogus terrorism charges.
I was among 120 people who were arrested on the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) led Action Against Poverty demonstration in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, on Tuesday 8 November. Hundreds of people had protested against spiralling levels of poverty.
