Over 450 activists met at the TUC headquarters in central London last Saturday for the largest anti-fascist conference in a decade.
With two weeks to go to the 19 March anti-war demonstration trade unionists are organising at work and in their branches to ensure a big turnout.
BUSH AND BLAIR’S war has never been less popular in Britain. Just 29 percent said in a recent opinion poll that they supported the war on Iraq. Most wanted the withdrawal of British troops and an end to the occupation. Every day brings more reasons to oppose this ongoing war.
NEW LABOUR and the Tories compete over who can be "toughest" on asylum seekers. This creates a climate which encourages racist and violent staff at detention centres to feel they can act with impunity.
Preventive detention has already played a shocking part in Britain’s "war on terror".
A lot of the evidence the issuing of control orders will be based on is inaccurate. Secret evidence is being used to put people in Belmarsh, or to make them subject to control orders.
The Scottish Parliament has rejected New Labour’s proposals to bring in compulsory identity cards across the country. The Scottish Green Party proposed the motion against ID cards, which was passed by 52 votes to 47 on Wednesday of last week.
I lived for many years in South Africa, during the dark days of apartheid. During that time, Britain’s legal system was held up as a beacon of light and hope, as the prison bars of the apartheid state closed around us.
Some 200 people crammed into the community hall at the al-Furqan Mosque in Woodlands, Glasgow, last Friday night for a passionate debate about defending civil liberties. Speakers included Jamal al-Harith who gave a moving account of his two years detained in Guantanamo Bay.
THE PROVISIONAL IRA is less popular today in the north of Ireland than at any time for the last 35 years.
The Stop the War Coalition publicly launched its 19 March demonstration on Tuesday. Lindsey German was joined by Ray Hewitt (right), who joined the army at 16, fought in the first Gulf War, and is now a reservist in the British army. He has told the ministry of defence that he now wishes to be a conscientious objector, because he "will not fight in an illegal war in Iraq." George Solomou (left), the former TA soldier who refused to go to Iraq, also endorsed the march
