More than 100 military families will head a US anti-war march near the Fort Bragg military base as part of the global day of protest against the war and occupation of Iraq on 19 March.
New evidence of how mercenaries working with US forces in Iraq have killed and brutalised unarmed civilians was revealed by whistleblowers this week.
"ALL OUT for the 19 March demonstration," was the message of a successful fourth annual conference held by the Stop the War Coalition on Saturday of last week. Coalition president Tony Benn opened the 400-strong delegate conference. "We must make the war the central issue in the coming general election," he said.
TRADE union voices had a strong presence at the Stop the War conference. Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT railworkers’ union, congratulated the coalition for building and sustaining such a broad campaign.
I would like to salute you. Your activities here are hidden from the Iraqi people. I have been amazed since arriving in Britain how many young people in particular are active in the anti-war movement.
More than 1,000 people attended Saturday’s climate change demonstration. It was called because the Kyoto agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions came into force on Wednesday of this week.
Shareholders in the first ever hospital Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme have grabbed a £37 million windfall. These figures were revealed by the government’s public spending watchdog last week.
The unelected committees supposedly representing healthcare in Epsom and Sutton, Surrey, rejected the wishes of the majority of citizens in the area and voted to downgrade St Helier and Epsom hospitals to "care centres" last month.
Austin Mitchell MP, chair of the council housing group of MPs, chaired an MPs’ inquiry session as part of a fringe meeting at Labour’s spring conference last week.
The campaign to free detainee Babar Ahmad got a boost from a large meeting organised by students at Imperial College, London, last week. Students in Imperial Against Imperialism (the college’s anti-war group), Amnesty International and the Islamic Society got around 160 people to the meeting.
I’M NOT particularly interested in league tables. But if you put Shakespeare to one side, Arthur Miller stands comparison with any playwright writing in the English language for his contribution to our culture and our understanding of what it is to be human. He uniquely captured the pain and the anguish, the hopes and aspirations of human beings in the modern world. And perhaps most importantly, he understood how human beings are connected to events in the greater world.
"Is the prime minister finally emerging from the shadow of Iraq?" asked James Naughtie on Radio Four’s Today Programme on Monday morning. The media briefings pouring out of 10 Downing Street are clamouring in answer: "Yes!"
