11 October 2007

Anti-war movement upholds right to protest

Stop The War Coalition demonstration 8 October 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

OVER 4,000 people took part in the 8 October rally in London, organised by the Stop the War coalition and CND against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... By Chris Newby

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30 August 2007

The War on Democracy

Review: John Pilger's first cinema-released documentary is a damning indictment of US policy in Latin America, past and present. ... By Edd Mustill

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19 July 2007

'War crimes' accusations by mine workers

A FEDERAL court in Birmingham, Alabama, is trying the US mining company Drummond for war crimes...

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7 June 2007

Fight Brown's agenda of war, cuts & privatisation

Gordon Brown, on the cover of Socialism Today, cartoon by Suz

Join the 24 June demo : GORDON BROWN is visiting Manchester for a special Labour conference as part of his "coronation" as prime minister. His cheerleaders claim: "Brown won't be like Blair". One such apologist recently said: "What shade of Brown we get depends on us".

We say any shade of New Labour's wars, cuts and privatisations is unacceptable!

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31 May 2007

Protesters cleared

TWO ANTI-WAR protestors, who broke into RAF Fairford just before the bombing of Iraq in March 2003, have been cleared of all charges...

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3 May 2007

Seattle students walkout against the Iraq war

OVER 800 students walked out of schools throughout Seattle, USA, on 18 April to demand an immediate end to the Iraq war. ...

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15 March 2007

Iraq war: Convicted Bush official is 'fall guy' over WMD scandal

IN THE most politically charged trial in the US since Irangate in the 1980s and Watergate in the 1970s, a senior official of the Bush administration - Lewis "scooter" Libby - was convicted of obstructing justice, perjury an...

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1 March 2007

Make anti-war movement an unstoppable force

Demonstration against Trident Feb24 2007, photo Pedro

After 24 February demo: THE TENS of thousands streaming through central London and Trafalgar Square on Saturday 24 February had a clear message: 'No to Trident...

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18 January 2007

Blair's vision: 'wars without end'

TONY BLAIR'S political failures in Iraq and Afghanistan - which have cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians and nearly 200 UK service personnel deaths - has not stopped the megalomaniac prime minister envisagin...

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15 January 2007

Sri Lankan government blamed for violent attack on ant-war rally organiers

Interview With Siritunga Jayasuriya.: AT: Siri, the press has carried reports of a violent attack by armed thugs against you and other organisers at a public rally in Colombo...

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14 September 2006

No to war

No to Blair and Brown: Between Blair the warmonger and Brown the hypocrite there is a vicious squabble over who gets to lead New Labour, writes Matt Dobson.

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7 September 2006

End the occupations

DISASTER, CATASTROPHE, devastation - words that can't come close to describing life in occupied Iraq or Afghanistan. But these words also fail to describe the situation facing the British military and the Bush and Blair regimes which face mounting opposition, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.

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20 July 2006

Lebanon: Israel's air war threatens regional war

"WE WILL turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years". This threat from an Israeli general is now being implemented by a brutal bombardment of Lebanon by the Israeli army, the IDF, writes Kevin Simpson.

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13 July 2006

'Storming heaven': Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War

ON THE 70th anniversary of its outbreak, PETER TAAFFE reviews Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 by Anthony Beevor (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £25)...

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16 March 2006

The case for a new workers' party

THREE YEARS on from the start of the war in Iraq, thousands are once again taking to the streets to oppose the occupation. Today opposition is at its highest ever level. But the 18 March demonstration, important as it is, will...

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2 February 2006

100 British victims of Blair's war

ON 31 January, it was announced that the 100th British soldier had been killed in the war and occupation of Iraq. This government is risking the lives of young soldiers in order to help fight US imperialism's battles to control...

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22 September 2005

Fighting Bush's war machine

AS SUPPORT for Bush's imperialist adventure in Iraq continues to fall, Socialist Alternative (the Socialist Party's US counterpart) is raising the call to rebuild a mass, combative anti-war movement...

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15 September 2005

March against war, terror and racism

"THE WORLD seems to have gone crazy." How many people have said that over the last few weeks? ...

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28 July 2005

Workers' unity needed against war, terror and racism

THE SECOND wave of attacks in London on 21 July fortunately did not cause any injuries and deaths...

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28 July 2005

Workers' unity against war and terrorism

TONY BLAIR sent British troops into Iraq with the words that it would make the world a 'safer place'....

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