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The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) is appealing for people to collect funds after policy director Alan McCombes was recently fined £500 and instructed to pay costs that could be as high as £25,000.

"We’re just a normal average family – we don’t know how this could happen. The only difference is I’m not white."

Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair will be criticised in the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report into the death of the innocent Brazilian man Jean Charles de Menezes.

As Socialist Worker reported two weeks ago, Stephen Whenary from Teesside was severely beaten during a police raid on his home last September.

Scottish Special Branch have launched an initiative to encourage teachers to inform on school students suspected of "flirting with Islamic extremism".

The British papers greeted the recent heatwave with pictures of crowded beaches. In Gaza, one of the most crowded corners of this planet, the beach provides one of few escapes.

Early doors, during one of Nigeria’s games in the 1994 World Cup, ITV commentator Ron Atkinson mentioned an "iguana" a number of times. Unable to spot the lizard on the lush green turf, I realised Atkinson was referring to the "Supereagles" defender Eguavoen. This was not the last time his mouth would let him down.

Union leaders last week suspended the lecturers’ action over pay after receiving a "new" offer from managers.

Lecturers across the country have reacted with anger to the offer. A significant number of universities have already passed motions attacking the proposed deal.

This week of events aims to explore architecture and the built environment via the arts and culture.

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On 16 June 1976 South African school students took to the streets of Soweto to protest at being forced to learn Afrikaans, which they saw as the language of their white oppressors.