10 September 2008
May Day detainees fight for justice
REPRESENTATIVES OF the 'May Day detainees' aim to get a judgement overturned in the House of Lords in November...
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3 September 2008
Opposing the far right
THE BIGGEST demonstration the village of Codnor has seen in recent years marched towards the far-right BNP's Red White and Blue Festival (RWB) on 16 August, writes By a Notts anti-fascist.
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16 July 2008
No to the BNP's attempt to divide Stoke's communities!
So far this year at least 19 people in London have lost their lives through knife crime, with 14,000 receiving hospital treatment nationally. Recently 400 people, mainly young, marched through north London to protest against the stabbing of 16-year old...
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9 July 2008
Government lies on public-sector pay
PROOF THAT the government is holding down public sector wage settlements below the rate of inflation - ie pay cuts - is provided by a report from the Incomes Data Services...
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9 July 2008
On the other side of the financial divide...
LAST THURSDAY, MPs voted by a majority of 28 to retain their £24,000 expenses for their second homes and the notorious 'John Lewis list' of furnishings for their second homes, so-called because it is based on prices at the department store...
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18 June 2008
Protest at BNP 'hate festival'
THE FAR right racist British National Party (BNP) are planning a 'festival of hate' (the Red White and Blue festival) on 16 August in Denby near the Notts/Derbyshire border, writes By Nottingham and Derby anti-BNP campaigners.
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17 June 2008
David Davis - sanity or carving a position?
TORY SHADOW Home Secretary David Davis has stood down to fight a by-election in opposition to the government's narrow victory on the issue of 42 days detention without charge for 'terrorist' suspects, writes Ken Douglas.
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15 June 2008
Campaign for a new workers' party
TONY BLAIR and his coterie live in a fantasy world. Blair is now one of the most hated prime ministers in history, yet his closest advisers have drawn up a plan for him to depart after May 2007, saying that "he needs to go with the crowds wanting more." Hannah Sell writes.
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11 June 2008
"Anti-terror" laws are no solution
THE GOVERNMENT'S proposal to increase the period that "terrorism suspects" can be detained without charge from 28 days to 42, comes before parliament as we go to press, writes Roger Shrives.
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11 June 2008
Stirring rally backs Tommy Sheridan
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Tommy Sheridan in 2007 |
AT AN inspiring rally in Glasgow on 7 June, 250 people pledged their support for Tommy Sheridan, Gail Sheridan, Gus Healey, Graeme McIver, Rosemary Byrne, Jock Penman and Pat Smith, writes Jim McFarlane, CWI Scotland.
