BRITISH BANK bosses celebrated massively increased profits this week-the result of job cuts, branch closures, excessive charges and forcing debt payments from the Third World...
CAMPAIGNERS WERE outside supermarkets in nearly every major town and city across England and Wales last Saturday to protest against the government's inhuman treatment of refugees. Protesters targeted...
MOBILISATION for Prague is taking off. Prague collectives are being set up all over Britain to get people to the demonstration planned against the IMF and the World Bank in the Czech Republic on 26 Se
CAMPAIGNERS FOR lower petrol prices launched a nationwide protest to "dump the pump" this week. The campaign is backed by the Tory party, the right wing press and the truck business lobby...
THE US government wants the World Trade Organisation to outlaw labelling which identifies food with genetically modified (GM) ingredients. The US is ready to make a complaint against the European Uni
PETER MANDELSON is refusing to return the 11,000 "golden handshake" he received when he resigned in December 1998 as trade secretary after his secret 373,000 home loan was revealed...
SEVENTY people packed out a brilliant meeting of the Brent Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers in Willesden last week. Asylum seekers, Labour Party members, socialists, trade unionists and local resid
In York comrades are involved in demanding that York City signs up to Kick Racism out of Football. They joined others on Saturday petitioning and collected several hundred names-including two City pla
MPs HAVE packed their bags. Their luxurious three month long summer holiday has begun. But although "official politics" may now go quiet, the run up to the next general election is under way in earne
FIFTY FIVE years ago this Sunday the US state committed one of the greatest crimes in history. It detonated an atomic bomb half a kilometre above the Japanese city of Hiroshima at 8.15am on 6 August 1
TENS OF thousands of people joined protests in Peru last week in opposition to the inauguration of Alberto Fujimori as president. Fujimori "won" re-election as president earlier this year in a poll t
BRIAN SOUTER, the millionaire head of the Stagecoach transport firm, had an example of the anti-gay bigotry he supports brought close to home last week. Souter spent 1 million on an unsuccessful camp
