An incredible referendum turnaround last Sunday in France saw 55 percent of voters reject the European Union proposal for a European constitution.
The vote will have a major impact in France. The Tory prime minister Raffarin was sacked on Tuesday of this week. President Chirac announced a new government in an attempt to calm the situation.
Around 700 people, young and old, marched around the historic centre of Montpellier last Sunday night, celebrating the no victory in the referendum.
Working people in France have delivered a defiant no to privatisation, neo-liberalism and Blairite policies across Europe.
Every day 30,000 children die from the diseases of poverty — and none of the proposals from Tony Blair, Gordon Brown or the other G8 leaders will do anything effective to halt those deaths.
Picture the scene. It’s 1994 at the headquarters of the World Bank. A couple of Christian Aid lobbyists are, if not exactly being muscled out of the building, very much being asked to leave.
Gordon Brown claims his new proposals for debt relief amount to 100 percent debt cancellation for the poorest countries. But in reality they amount to very little indeed.
A new report from ActionAid shows that the G8 countries are giving little in real aid to the world’s poorest countries — despite their political grandstanding.
Babar Ahmad, the south London IT worker who faces extradition to the US on trumped up "terrorism" charges, has hit out at the court decision last month to proceed with his extradition.
Fight to save fire engine Firefighters and their supporters will flood the streets in east London next Tuesday in protest at life-threatening cuts to the service.
Following the election of George Galloway, and his barnstorming performance in front of the US senate, various contributers discuss what’s next for Respect
