The hypocrisy of George Bush and Tony Blair's denunciations of terrorism is stunning.
Education minister Charles Clarke was forced to begin a climbdown over top-up fees within days of the Queen's Speech that announced their introduction.
Britain involved in Guantanamo detentions? - US troops demoralised? - Military decorations
Contrary to Bush and Blair's familiar response to any attack on US or British forces as the work of 'Saddam loyalists' or 'foreign terrorists', it is clear that the resistance in Iraq has gained momentum, and that the Iraqi people have increasingly come to see themselves as subject to a colonial occupation.
On 25 October, Russian state security agents stormed a private plane and arrested at gunpoint the dapper 40 year old Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's richest man, worth £4.7 billion.
In scenes not seen in the former Soviet states for a decade, tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets to topple a corrupt regime.
For the third time in just over a year, Serbia's presidential elections were declared null and void last month because of a disastrously low voter turnout.
The victorious postal strike has put unofficial action back on the agenda, writes Martin Smith. Postal workers describe their success.
Attacks on refugees and Islamophobia are one side of the changing face of racism, but there is also a groundswell of anti-racist sentiment.
Poet Michael Rosen slams New Labour's education agenda.
Paul Foot puts the case for a unity coalition of the left, while Socialist Alliance councillor Michael Lavalette explains how he has forged a campaign in Preston.
