Guerrilla graffiti artist Banksy has recently branched out from his normal east London haunts and taken a trip to Palestine, where he applied his talents to the apartheid wall being built by Israel.
An Israeli soldier was convicted of manslaugher last week for the killing of British peace activist Tom Hurndall in April 2003 in Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Taysir Hayb shot Tom in the head as he tried to help Palestinian children.
The bombings (or attempts) of 7 and 21 July seem to have thrown commentators and politicians back yet again to endless ponderings on what it means to be British.
The immediate future of the trade union movement in Britain rests heavily on the outcome of the battle to reinstate 670 workers summarily sacked by the Gate Gourmet catering company at Heathrow last week.
Shop stewards at British Airways (BA) held a meeting on Thursday morning last week. It was addressed by T&G general secretary Tony Woodley and other officials who informed them of the mass sackings at Gate Gourmet.
A battle with implications for every worker in Britain was raging at Heathrow airport as Socialist Worker went to press.
Tarique Ghaffur, an assistant commissioner for London’s Metropolitan Police and the man responsible for community policing, launched an attack on the Somali community last week.
The whole saga of the Iraqi constitution, where any agreement on a draft was delayed until Monday of next week, is indicative of the situation in Iraq under the US occupation.
The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is backing the national demonstration against war, racism and occupation in London on 24 September. The party’s executive last week unanimously voted to support the protest.
There was singing and dancing outside the high court in London on Thursday of last week as the home office was forced to back down from plans to restart the deportation of Zimbabwean asylum seekers.
Campaigners for the Sajid family in the South Bank area of Teesside were celebrating last week after the family was allowed to return home.
Labour has announced its most vicious attack yet on the NHS in a policy document published by the department of health last week. There is a clear intention to dismantle the NHS as we presently know it.
