Chris Grayling, the Tory work and pensions minister, launched fresh attacks on benefit claimants this week, despite his smear that they are fakers being proved wrong.
The man who gunned down six people at a Sikh temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, yesterday was a white supremacist with a web of links to the neo-Nazi music scene, according to US anti-racists.
The trial of three members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot began in Moscow this week. They are charged with "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after performing a protest song at the altar of one of Moscow’s major Orthodox cathedrals in February.
The jury in the Sean Rigg inquest has delivered a damning verdict on the police, accusing them of using an "unacceptable level of force" to restrain Sean shortly before he died in their custody.
Trade unionists and campaigners all along the south coast are organising to make the TUC’s 20 October demonstration massive, they have told Socialist Worker.
"Why aren’t you dead then?" This was the response of an Atos work capability assessor to an interviewee who said they had attempted suicide several times while suffering with depression.
