The Tories are going on the offensive—and we have to fight back.
We are being attacked on all fronts. Now the Tories are after the pensions of some six million public sector workers.
The Western powers are severely shaken by the revolts in the Middle East and North Africa. The region is of massive strategic and economic interest to the US and its allies.
A report released this week rehashes the lie that Muslims need to tackle "extremism" in their own community—saying it is "acting as drivers and recruiters for the right".
The great storm of revolt that began in a small town in Tunisia now sweeps from Morroco across thousands of miles of North Africa and the Middle East through to Iran, as this map shows.
There is only one place to be on Saturday 26 March—the TUC demonstration in London against the government’s attacks.
The Libyan and Bahraini regimes’ attacks on protesters were met with horror around the world.
The Egyptian revolution is a blow to all those who think change is impossible. There is an exhilaration to those moments when ordinary people overthrow an old society and start to build a fresh one.
The Egyptian people have made a revolution that will change the course of history. Hosni Mubarak was one of the world’s most brutal dictators and was backed to the hilt by the US and all the western powers.
That David Cameron chose last Saturday to make a speech attacking Muslims is despicable.
The row over the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, who was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, exposes a real scandal.
The Egyptian revolution is in progress. It is a momentous event. The protests have the potential not just to bring down a dictator, but to transform the balance of power between the rich and poor across the globe.
