ARMS SALES have doubled under the New Labour government. The government's own figures revealed a shocking rise in the trade in lethal military equipment to some of the world's most repressive regimes...
TONY BLAIR denounced the demonstrators outside the G8 summit of world leaders in Genoa last week and claimed the "summit has done much to help the world's poor"...
FOUR CHINESE workers have recently been sacked from a restaurant in London's Chinatown. Their "crime" was joining the TGWU trade union...
THE US has deliberately provoked conflicts with Iraq to provide an excuse for war. Former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter says the US set up clashes in order to justify its bombing raid...
RACISM IS not simply one group of people disliking another. It is systematic discrimination against ethnic minorities. It is built into British society...
JOHN O' FARRELL'S lead article in the Guardian's education supplement on Tuesday of last week highlighted the campaign for a secondary school in Lambeth, south London...
GIANT DRUGS firms have a new pitch-make up a disease and then sell a "cure". Social anxiety disorder, an acute form of shyness, has become a popular disease over the last few years in the US...
THE ITALIAN state used ferocious repression against demonstrators at the G8 summit last weekend. It would be capable of much greater violence if the whole system was at stake...
THE WORLD Bank admitted last week that over 85 percent of the world's population has absolutely no income after retirement...
ARGENTINA WAS rocked by a two-day general strike last week against savage cuts designed to placate international bankers. Transport and other public sector workers as well as groups like bank workers...
BLOOD WAS dripping from the walls of the Genoa Independent Media Centre after Italian police raided it on Saturday night. They seized files, smashed computers and savagely assaulted protesters...
