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A police officer standing trial in connection with the death of Mikey Powell dismissed suggestions last week that excessive force was used.

Old Labour fights back The people of Blaenau Gwent in South Wales have delivered a stinging blow to New Labour. The victory of Dai Davies in the recent parliamentary by-election and Trish Law in the Welsh Assembly seat show that the result at the last general election was not just a flash in the pan.

Shrewsbury Sixth Form College More than 50 members of the NUT and other unions at Shrewsbury Sixth Form College held an angry protest on Tuesday of last week against the closure of the college’s adult learning section. This will lead to many highly skilled staff being made redundant or put on reduced hours 

Tony Blair has ordered 900 more troops to Afghanistan, bringing the deployment in the country to 4,500. Six British troops, and untold and uncounted hundreds of Afghans, have died there in the past three weeks.

The 30 years of armed struggle and mass resistance against British rule in Ireland began with the struggle for civil rights. The struggle was about fighting against second class citizenship.

The outcome of Mexico’s presidential election, held on the 2 July, shows the deep crisis in the country’s political system.

For the first time for many years there is a sense of relief and hope among many people in Somalia.

Israel is intensifying its collective punishment of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, one of the most overcrowded areas on the planet.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, last Sunday.

if art reflects life," wrote the playwright Bertolt Brecht, "it does so with special mirrors." Here Brecht is complicating the traditional adage, "All art is a mirror to life."

Analysis by Socialist Worker shows that the NHS trusts driving through cuts and job losses are already failing to deliver for patients.

Hackney Members of Keep Our NHS Public in Hackney, east London, lobbied the board of their local primary care trust on Wednesday of last week.