'We will defy the bankers' - Greek workers speak out

“No one wants to be governed like before,” says Costas Katarachias, a doctor and union rep at Agios Savvas cancer hospital in Athens

High-profile grooming case exposes the bleak reality of some young women’s lives, says Judith Orr

The authorities, including the police, did not think the victims were worth protecting because they were poor, in care or suffering neglect, writes Hassan Mahamdallie

The Tories are hellbent on destroying the national health service—but far-fetched soundbites won’t quell workers’ anger at snowballing job cuts, writes Julie Sherry

The Tories’ welfare reforms will kick half a million disabled people off benefits—according to the government’s own figures

David Cameron has put off his appearance before the Leveson inquiry amid mounting panic in Downing Street, writes Simon Basketter

As proof emerges that academies grab funds from state schools, Sadie Robinson looks at the growing revolt against privatisation

Right wing newspapers splashed another abortion scare story over their pages this week

There were almost 150 Unite and PCS union members on the noisy picket lines at the Ministry of Defence base in Donnington near Telford

Health workers in the Unite union won support for their strike after massive anger at the Tories’ NHS privatisation bill

A leading Roma activist based in Britain is facing extradition to Bulgaria—where his life will be in danger from racists

The parents of murdered teenager Trayvon Martin were in London last week to share a platform with Doreen Lawrence and others

Angeline Pirira Mwafulirwa and Ako Khalil Zada each advanced their case, with support from campaigners

A report has exposed some of the horrors of Nato’s bombing campaign on Libya last year

The queen’s speech has unveiled the Tories’ plans for the year

The Campaign Against Climate Change Caravan for a Million Jobs has started a two week tour of Britain

Basildon Council used fake evidence to accuse a single mother Mandy Barratt for benefit fraud

The Tories announced plans to give parents of children with special educational needs more “choice” in support

Prison officers across Britain are taking unofficial action over pensions today, Thursday, walking out on the same day as the public sector strikes

Tory MP Patrick Mercer, chairman of a parliamentary group on security, got almost £10,000 from security firm Clearwater, it has been revealed

The Olympic torch 70-day relay across Britain is being heralded as a moment for celebration

There has been some gnashing of teeth in the City over news that executive bonuses may fall slightly this year

More good news for MPs

Climate campaigners gathered in London and Edinburgh yesterday (Saturday) to wave off the Caravan for a Million Climate Jobs on its tour of Britain

The CIA claims it “foiled” an underwear bomb plot by seizing the bomb

Police fired tasers at a man with Alzheimer’s—after they were called out to help take him to hospital

Mitt Romney US Republican presidential candidate

Elderly People living in the poorest places get ill up to 15 years earlier than those in wealthy areas, a study shows

Nato leaders are preparing to gather in Chicago on Sunday for a two day conference on the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan

World leaders are spending a lot of their time in summits whilst they are in the grip of an economic crisis they cannot solve

Nikolaos Mihaloliakos, leader of Greece’s fascist Golden Dawn party, is using the publicity he has gained since the Greek elections to deny the Nazi Holocaust

The things they said last week

Workers have rejected austerity—now we need to push for a people’s default, writes Panos Garganas

Greece’s ruling class has every reason to be worried about new elections

The streets of the Spanish state echoed with opposition to banks and calls for “real democracy” last Saturday as the indignados (outraged) marked the first anniversary of their 15 May movement

Armed insurgency and civilian defiance are spreading to regions once thought loyal to Syria’s regime, writes Simon Assaf

A hunger strike by more than 2,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails came to an end on Tuesday of this week

Five survivors of fascist killer Anders Behring Breivik’s rampage gave testimony during his trial in Norway this week

Almost one in seven Nato soldiers killed in Afghanistan are shot by the Afghan personnel they are meant to be training to “take over security” when the occupiers leave

Students protesting against tuition fee hikes in Quebec, Canada, chalked up a victory on Monday of this week

Hundreds of anti-government protesters have been camping out in central Moscow for over a week, in Russia’s first occupy protest

Europe's political leadership is bankrupt

May Day came late for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, writes Martin Smith, SWP industrial organiser

The left’s attitude to Egypt’s Islamists has long been a point of debate - Revolutionary Socialist Hossam el-Hamalawy says a sit‑in at Egypt’s Ministry of Defence shows it’s vital to take sides

An extract from The Prophet and the Proletariat, by Chris Harman

Thursday 10 May saw the latest mass strike over pensions

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Michael Rosen pays tribute to author and illustrator Maurice Sendak

Science fiction has had an awkward relationship with Africa

This award winning documentary about daily life in an NHS hospital returns for a second season this week on Channel 4

Laura wade’s play is based on the Bullingdon Club—the aristocratic drinking society that David Cameron and Boris Johnson both attended at Oxford university

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As a series of scandals continue to rock the cops, Socialist Worker shows that the organisation that is supposed to police the police is worse than useless

There were 30,000 cops and one Socialist Worker journalist

Phil Corddell, a south London trade unionist and anti-racist activist, died last month

More than 300 people came to Occupy London’s “Meet the 1 percent” demonstration last Saturday

Some 50 people with numerous campaign stalls gathered for a solidarity day in Lewisham, south east London, on Saturday of last week

The UCU lecturers’ union was set to meet management at Chesterfield College on Wednesday of this week

Up to 200 people attended a conference on Crisis, Class and Resistance hosted by the International Socialism Journal in London last Saturday

Sam Hallam, who has been imprisoned since 2004, will have his case reviewed in the Court of Appeal this week

Minister for welfare reform Lord Freud is set to justify the cuts he is driving through to housing benefit to an audience on Wednesday of next week

Teaching and support staff at Central Foundation Girls' School in Bow, east London struck for a second time on Friday of last week

Workers at Cheshire West and Chester council struck last weekend in their continuing battle over unsociable hours pay

Over 20,000 bus workers at 21 London operators are set to be balloted for industrial action from Thursday of this week in a dispute over Olympic bonus payments

The RMT union has launched a campaign to defend Dayna Nembhard, a tube station assistant who has been sacked after eight years in the job

Train signal workers in Stirling struck for 24 hours on Wednesday of last week

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Oil tanker drivers in the Unite union effectively ended their dispute at seven haulage companies last week, voting by a narrow margin to accept an offer from bosses

Workers sacked by Mayr Melnhof Packaging (MMP) in Bootle, Merseyside, are protesting at the firm’s clients and partners as part of their campaign for justice

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