Some 3,000 people from across all communities demonstrated their unity against racism at the funeral of Anthony Walker, the black Liverpool teenager murdered on Friday 30 July in a racially motivated attack.
A sponsored Cycle for Peace took place in Scotland last Sunday to raise money for a legal case attempting to bring Tony Blair to account for war crimes in Iraq.
"We're not interested in redundancy — we want our jobs back."
Protesting workers were delighted to hear first hand of Respect MP George Galloway’s support for their battle when he visited the picket line on Tuesday.
Fire Brigades Union members in Suffolk are taking strike action each morning until Wednesday of next week in an escalation of their battle against job cuts.
Low paid workers in Bradford working at Initial Textile Services, part of the Rentokil group, struck on Thursday of last week.
Saudi trade unionist Yahya Al Faifi, now in Swansea, is stepping up his campaign for union rights in Saudi Arabia following a dismissive letter from Pontypridd MP Kim Howells, the government minister responsible for Saudi Arabia.
Why are George Bush and Tony Blair pushing for Iraq to adopt a new constitution?
Protests were organised across Britain last week to oppose the government’s plans to return failed asylum seekers to Iraq.
Kurds demand true democracy London-based Kurdish activist and member of Respect’s national council Sait Akgul spoke to Socialist Worker about the proposed Iraq constitution
"She has been demoted because of her strict adherence to procurement requirements and the army’s preference to sidestep them when it suits their needs." Lawyer Michael Kohn, on the demotion of a top US army official who opposed multinational Halliburton’s role in Iraq
If there’s one thing the media can make sense of it’s a bit of "ethnicity". Tracing the roots of conflicts might require some critical research, and who has time for that? So when the powers that be obscure their own complicity in catastrophe by explaining wars as all about Deep Seated Ethnic Hatreds™, you can almost hear sighs of journalistic relief.
