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16 April 2008 The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill going through parliament at the moment is causing controversy... 2 April 2008 Home Secretary Jacqui Smith recently announced plans for ID cards to be introduced on a 'voluntary' basis for certain groups, including students, writes Steve Sweeney, Cambridge Socialist Students. 25 March 2008 THE CHINESE regime has imposed martial law in Tibet following the most serious protests against Chinese rule for 20 years... 27 February 2008 "SORRY FOR letting kidnappers and torturers use our territory". This is what foreign secretary David Miliband should have said in his belated apology, writes Dave Carr 27 February 2008 THE RESIGNATION of Ian Paisley junior as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) minister in the Northern Ireland Executive, follows months of intense speculation over the nature of his relationship with Seymour Sweeney, a milliona, writes Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party Belfast 20 February 2008 Prison Officers Association protest outside the Royal Court of Justice, joined by Brian Caton, POA general secretary, photo Keith Dickinson 13 December 2007
LAST WEEK it was disclosed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had destroyed video tape evidence of prisoners ("detainees") being tortured at the US-run Guantanamo Bay concentration camp in Cuba... By Dave Carr 6 December 2007
PAPER MASKS, scissors and some toy soldiers. These are the offensive items found by 100 police officers, after holding three busloads of anti-war protesters... By Michael Wrack, Hackney Socialist Party 29 November 2007
What we think: "A MASS movement is needed to tackle the state's snoopers" read a headline in the Observer newspaper... 8 November 2007
AT LAST, the grieving family of Brazilian migrant worker, Jean Charles de Menezes, have received partial justice of a sort after the successful prosecution of the Metropolitan Police under health and safety laws... By Rob McDonald and Steve Nally | |||||||||||||||
