New York police attacked a 150-strong rally addressed by Cindy Sheehan on Monday. Sheehan who lost a son in Iraq, has become a prominent figure in the US anti-war movement.
Tom Hayden, one of the US’s leading anti-war and civil rights activists since the 1960s, is set to speak at the London Stop the War demonstration on Saturday.
A new opinion poll in Time magazine says that 61 percent of Americans think funds for the war should be redirected to aid and clean-up for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
"When I led my men of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment into Iraq we believed we were going to do some good. It was to be a liberation. Now I believe we have to get out of Iraq. Not just the British, but the entire Western force."Colonel Tim Collins, whose speech made from a tank in Iraq was pinned to the wall of George Bush’s office
Hundreds of inmates in the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay have been on hunger strike for six weeks against their indefinite detention without charge or trial.
Iraqis have accused British special forces of planning a terrorist attack on Basra.
We live in a world where the US had to send troops into both New Orleans and Baghdad to try to keep control.
Security Guards working for Eurostar at the Waterloo international terminal struck along with their colleagues at Ashford International and the North Pole depot on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of last week.
Civil service workers in the PCS union met in central London on Thursday of last week to discuss their current ballot against job cuts. Chancellor Gordon Brown wants to slash 104,000 jobs across the civil service.
Thousands of Morrisons distribution workers could strike as the supermarket giant plans to shut several depots. The result of a joint T&G and GMB ballot for industrial action was set to be announced on Thursday of this week.
Local residents and anti-fascist campaigners have responded brilliantly to an attempt by the Nazi BNP to target the Clifton area of York. A group of fascists appeared in the ward last weekend, in an attempt to exploit concerns over a proposed hostel for the homeless.
The delegation was in Colombia for a week, in which time we attended around 20 meetings in both Bogotá and villages in the rural Cauca region, with trade union groups, non-governmental organisations, politicians, lawyers, community groups and human rights’ organisations.
