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It was the day the British working class reminded everyone of its power.

This docudrama looks at the attempts, between 1998 and 2000, to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet from Britain to face trial for the torture and murders that took place under his regime.

In May this year we will be marking the 80th anniversary of the General Strike of 1926. It was one of the struggles that, during the 20th century, marked out the British working class as having tremendous strength and combativity – but also craven and incompetent leaders.

More than 100,000 anti-war protesters from across Britain marched in London last Saturday against three years of occupation in Iraq and the threats of a military attack on Iran.

In the last two decades, a remarkable revolution has been occurring in Britain – a great surge in both the numbers of the very rich and in the level of their wealth.

Tuesday 28 March can be the start of a new chapter in British workers’ history. We need it to be as exciting and militant as the revolt we’ve seen in France.

Conventional accounts of Britain’s participation in the Iraq war contend that Tony Blair was a "poodle" to the US.

Unhappy the nation whose death rates are featured only in the Lancet! This British medical journal has become famous recently for suggesting that 100,000 civilians died after the US/British invasion of Iraq, and then that four million people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 1998.

WOW Film Festivalon tour www.wowfilmfestival.org This is a small touring programme of films from Africa, Asia, and Latin America that are rarely shown in Britain.

The death of Slobodan Milosevic, fittingly dubbed "the butcher of the Balkans", has provoked much sanctimonious commentary. Some of this has been hypocritical, uttered by figures blind to Britain’s butchery in Iraq, and to that of its acolytes abroad, such as Israel’s Milosevic, Ariel Sharon.

Iran is being accused of breaking the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) by the West. The NPT is designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. It was originally signed by the US, the Soviet Union and Britain in 1968, and since by over 180 states.

A one-day strike by thousands of lecturers in the AUT and Natfhe unions across Britain took place on tuesday of last week.