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Swansea, Newport, and now Wrexham – each time the racist thugs of the Welsh Defence League (WDL) have threatened to march they have either been seen off or failed to appear.

Anger and defiance at the rise in homophobic attacks was seen on the streets of Liverpool last Sunday when more than 1,500 people marched through the city.

Union leaders were meeting to discuss whether to resume national post strikes as Socialist Worker went to press.

The floods that devastated parts of the country last week have left at least three people dead and thousands with their homes ruined.

"Talk talk talk. Stall stall stall. They’re playin us till Xmas. Nothin has changed. It’s got worse. Bring bak the strikes.""Name the dates. u cant deal with these arseholes. They are just wasting our time.""The dates should be from 1 December to 24 December.""If we don’t act now we’re finished in the new year.""Totally agree. Stand together and we can beat this pile of...""The time has come for action. No going back until we get what we want.""We have taken all they could throw at us so far and we are still standing united. We are fighting for what’s right, for the public

World leaders are sitting idly by while the planet burns. Those heads of government who can be bothered to attend are due to gather for climate change talks in Copenhagen next month.

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"Those who were arguing they were going to shut the WTO down were in fact successful today." That was the frank admission of Seattle police chief Norm Stamper after the events of November 1999.

Ten years ago, on 30 November 1999, like a lightning flash in an empty sky, the World Trade Organisation summit in Seattle was paralysed by mass protests. Trade unionists, and environmental and debt campaigners came together to expose the damaging effects of the drive for free trade.

‘I came here to protest about the killing of turtles. I’m going home determined to turn the whole world upside down.’Amber Pattison, who travelled 1,000 miles to Seattle

This year’s Big Red Diary is all about resistance. It’s a practical, A6-size, week-to-view diary.

Ben Elton is a strange figure. He rose to fame with his anti‑Thatcher rants back in the 1980s and earned much-deserved praise for his writing for Blackadder.