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When the anti-capitalist movement began to emblazon its banners with the slogan "Another World is Possible", it signalled the revival of a utopianism that had been furled up and forgotten for at least a couple of decades.

An innocent man was left with extensive injuries following a beating by police officers.

"I don’t need to spell it out, but the wars that we have seen, the occupations that we see throughout the world—people finally cannot turn away from that... Maybe if we start telling the truth about the past, we can start telling the truth about the present."Director Ken Loach, whose new film The Wind That Shakes The Barley has won the top prize at the Cannes film festival

Nuclear is not the answer The provision of sufficient affordable electricity for all citizens, regardless of wealth or income should, in the 21st century, be regarded as a human right.

Peugeot protest Some 100 Peugeot Ryton workers protested on Friday of last week over the closure of their plant. The demonstration took place outside the Peugeot dealership in Coventry. Workers are balloting for strikes despite threats from Peugeot to accelerate the closure if workers vote for action.

Tanks were patrolling the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday of this week following a wave of demonstrations and riots that targeted symbols of the Western occupation of the country.

Over the past few weeks much attention in the media and on the web has been devoted to a document called the Euston Manifesto, which was finally launched on Thursday of last week.

The British state is guilty of murder and terrorism.

At least 1,000 British soldiers have deserted from the army since the beginning of the Iraq war in 2003, the BBC reported this week.

Two prominent members of the Youth for Change movement in Egypt have been arrested and savagely beaten by state security police.

The Afghan capital Kabul was the one place US and Nato occupation forces and the government of president Hamid Karzai could claim control. But an uprising this week, after a US military truck crashed into rush hour traffic killing at least five people, was a major show of opposition to an occupation in which British forces are taking a leading role.

New Labour's vision of an NHS opened to market forces moved a step closer last week as Care UK became the first private company to take over a GP’s surgery.