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The Harare offices of the International Socialist Organisation (ISO) – The Socialist Workers Party's sister organisation in Zimbabwe – were raided yesterday morning by the police.

On Monday students at Rome's La Sapienza university occupied, and stopped Roberto Fiore, leader of the hard line fascist Forza Nuova from addressing a conference. Fiore spent much of the 1980s in Britain, having fled Italy after being sought for involvement in the 1980 bombing of Bologna station which killed 85 people.

The Mayor of Chiaiano called it "civil war". On the northern outskirts of Naples in southern Italy – the population of a town which, ironically, turned out a big vote for the right wing in recent elections – is going toe-to-toe with the new government’s hard-line "security" legislation.

First we saw New Labour attack rich "Tory boys" in the Crewe & Nantwich by-election. Then they rushed to drop the issue as soon as the press howled at them for stirring up "class war".

New Labour has found a new way to bring privatisation into education with its plans to scrap pupil referral units and leave young people at the mercy of private companies.

Nicolas Sarkozy’s election victory in France a year ago was interpreted by some as a neoliberal backlash against the left. But he now finds himself the most unpopular president since records began.

So evolution "expert" Bruce Charlton has at last discovered why working class students are under-represented at top universities. Is it perhaps the elitist nature of the selection process?

Children’s Commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green has come under fire for challenging the trajectory of New Labour’s policies on youth crime.

Many people on the left are wrapped in gloom at the moment.

There is growing outrage over the arrest of Nottingham university student Rizwaan Sabir and staff member Hicham Yezza.

As Israeli forces were pounding Lebanon in the summer of 2006, nine anti-war activists in Northern Ireland occupied the offices of arms company Raytheon Systems Limited – the UK subsidiary of the US company Raytheon.

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