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Campaigners to save Omar Deghayes, the British Guantanamo detainee currently on hunger strike, went to the US embassy on Tuesday of last week. They delivered documents and a petition calling for him to be charged or released into British jurisdiction.

Nearly 6,000 GMB union members working as British Gas engineers have voted by four to one to strike over pensions.

Unite Against Fascism campaigners were out in force over the weekend campaigning against the fascist British National Party (BNP), which was standing in council by-elections in two wards in Thurrock, Essex, on Thursday of this week.

Tony Blair is planning to replace Britain’s current nuclear weapons system, Trident.

The HBO/BBC series Rome is being presented as a breakthrough in the portrayal of ancient Rome. But in fact there’s little new. In line with long-standing Hollywood tradition, the cast is British, even if the money is mainly American.

Sandblast is an emerging organisation set up to tackle the severe lack of the awareness of the Saharawi situation in Britain and to build links between the UK and Western Sahara through the arts.

Pressure Horace OvéBurning an IllusionMenelik ShabazzBoth released on DVD by the British Film Institute (£19.99)

Like most people educated in Britain, I was taught that the Tory ruling class that had opposed votes for women so vehemently nevertheless produced the first woman MP in 1919 — Nancy Astor.

Germany's radical left is facing a new challenge. Last week the conservative CDU and CSU parties came to an agreement with the centre left SPD, similar to Britain’s Labour Party, to form a "grand coalition" government.

Far from heading towards deeper segregation, Britain is becoming increasingly racially and ethnically mixed, according to a new study released this week.

British Airways (BA) was poised to remove leading trade unionists from Heathrow airport this week.

The International Peace Conference is now just weeks away. Delegations from around Britain are organising for what promises to be the largest ever gathering of anti-war activists from Britain, Iraq and the US.