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About 300 members of Women Of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) marched through the country’s second city Bulawayo yesterday afternoon.

Solidarity with the people of Mahalla – Stop the show trial of Egyptian protesters We the undersigned express our full solidarity with the 49 Egyptian citizens, whom the Mubarak regime has decided to prosecute in an Emergency High State Security Criminal Court, accused of involvement in the two day uprising in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla in April.

Warehouse and distribution workers in the Unite union at retail giant Argos have overwhelmingly voted to continue with their programme of strike action against below inflation pay.

Gordon Brown often seeks refuge from a disastrous domestic scene by banging on about the Doha round of international talks on trade liberalisation.

Politicians and the media continue to call for crackdowns on young people as the way to deal with knife crime.

"Many of the generation that some have called Thatcher’s children – the lost generation – were sadly denied the chance to progress."Gordon Brown blames his tea guest Margaret Thatcher for the problems he faces today

The largest party of the European radical left, Rifondazione Comunista of Italy, held its national congress last weekend and made a decisive shift to the left.

Environmental activists and trade unionists will demonstrate this Sunday 3 August against the proposed building of a new coal-fired power station by private company E.on at Kingsnorth in Kent.

New Labour ministers are set to put up for sale a public service that is vital to the lives of pensioners and some of the poorest sections of the population.

Negotiations aimed at ending Zimbabwe’s political crisis were stalled as Socialist Worker went to press.

Stoke day of action Campaigners are stepping up the fight against the fascist British National Party (BNP) across the country.

New figures have revealed the massive subsidies doled out to MPs in the bars of the House of Commons. They have also exposed the government’s hypocrisy over "binge drinking".