Sixty years ago next week the state of Israel was founded through the violent theft of historic Palestine.
The British MI5 secret service colluded in torture and the Labour government is lying about it. A 33-year old man from Manchester has said that he had three fingernails ripped out after hours of being beaten and whipped.
There is an institution that sacks trade unionists and allows its workers to stand for the fascist British National Party (BNP) in elections. It’s not a union-busting private equity company, but the government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
One year ago, as Tony Blair’s premiership was reaching its fag end, there was a new spirit of optimism among Britain’s union leaders and MPs on the centre left of the Labour Party.
An influential lie pushed by Gordon Brown, the Tories and most of the media, is that business bosses are "wealth creators". Without them, we’re told, the economy would collapse.
The British National Party (BNP) is desperately trying to conceal its Nazi roots and pose as "respectable" in its bid to grab a seat on the London assembly next week.
Fifteen years ago this week Stephen Lawrence, a young black man, was stabbed to death in south east London by racist thugs. To this day no one has been prosecuted for his murder.
The return of right winger Silvio Berlusconi to office in Italy is bad enough. The total elimination of the radical left from parliament verges on the disastrous.
The government has illegally attempted to cover up corruption – not over donations to the Labour Party, but over a huge arms deal to a vicious dictatorship.
The protests that greeted the Olympic torch in London and Paris have re-ignited a debate about whether you can keep politics out of sport. The simple answer is no. As George Orwell famously wrote, sport "is war minus the shooting".
Gordon Brown is not acting alone in holding down public sector wages. European finance ministers met in Slovenia last weekend and called for wage increases to be held below inflation.
In the first three quarters of last year, 210 workers died at work according to the Health and Safety Executive. In the previous year 241 workers were killed while doing their job.
