Many of the detainees held without trial in the US camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are so desperate that they have embarked on a hunger strike in order to have their cases heard.
In the same week that £4.5 million of taxpayers money is being spent on preventing legitimate protest against the DSEi arms fair in London, six campaigners were arrested in Newcastle.
Millions of people across Britain will face a cold, expensive winter after energy companies announced their prices are set to rise by up to 14 percent.
The Hampshire village of Lyndhurst in the New Forest has a population of 3,060. But on Monday of this week over 2,000 people demonstrated there to fight hospital bed cuts.
Labour councillor joins Respect Newham, east London, has its first Respect councillor. Sarah Ruiz became a Labour councillor in 1993.
Some 2,000 council workers in Sefton, Merseyside, struck on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. They were demanding the reinstatement of two leading trade union activists suspended by Sefton council on trumped-up disciplinary charges.
Council tenants in Sefton and Sedgefield are the latest to vote against the transfer of their homes to a private sector housing association landlord.
The Unity Against Racism festival in Liverpool on Sunday was truly a day to remember.
Activists from Unite Against Fascism demonstrated against the National Front in Manchester and Medway, Kent, on Saturday 27 August.
Up to 5,000 refugees face eviction from their homes, all their benefits and support removed and their family split apart as social services take their children into care.
A ballot for industrial action among First Eastern Counties bus drivers in Norfolk has seen 93 percent of staff vote for strikes. Drivers say they have now been pushed to the limit by their employers.
