IRAQ: NEW US PLAN FOR TOTAL CONTROL

College workers held a national day of protests on Wednesday of this week to demand fair pay

Revealed: George Bush’s plan to impose ‘security accords’ that will mean 400 permanent military bases and US personnel given green light to kill

Rizwaan Sabir, who was arrested for downloading an Al Qaida manual for his course, spoke to Socialist Worker

Gordon Brown came up with a wonderful Blairite and Orwellian phrase this week saying he wants “to protect the security of all and the liberties of each” by extending detention for terrorist suspects to 42 days

The crisis racked New Labour government is whipping up terror scares in an effort to divert attention away from its own problems

A proposed new history GCSE syllabus could force students to accept the government’s point of view on contentious issues such as terrorism and the Middle East conflict

World leaders were meeting at the United Nations world food summit in Rome as Socialist Worker went to press

High profile health trade unionist Yunus Bakhsh could be sacked this week after health bosses decided to press ahead with a disciplinary hearing against him - despite Yunus not being well enough to attend

Gordon Brown is attacking workers’ living standards while asking the unions to bail out the Labour Party

Around 7,000 further education lecturers in the UCU union in London are set to strike on Monday of next week in the next stage of the battle against Gordon Brown’s public sector pay limit

The CWU union conference, which is to take place in Liverpool next week, is likely to be a watershed

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is set to meet for its annual conference next week amid growing threats of attacks and privatisation

Bradford & Bingley (B&B) is the latest lending company to get caught up in the credit crunch

Gordon Brown says his answer to the spiralling cost of oil is to cut dependency on fossil fuels by building more nuclear power stations

Forty years ago this week a strike for better pay by women machinists at Ford’s Dagenham plant began

On the face of it, it was business as usual last week in the Indian state of West Bengal as an alliance of parties headed by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), won the state elections

There were celebrations across Nepal last week as the Himalayan kingdom declared itself a republic, and gave the former king notice to quit his palace

Zimbabwe’s government is sanctioning attacks on the opposition in the run-up to the country’s presidential election on 27 June

The radical left in Europe has reasons to be cheerful

Socialist Worker’s guide to fighting Britain’s Nazi party

Some people say we shouldn’t worry about the BNP because fascism “just isn’t part of the British character”

In 1968 Rose Boland, the leading steward in the Ford machinists’ strike was interviewed for Socialist Worker by Sabby Sagall

Chris Bambery looks at the issues raised by some fascinating debates between revolutionaries and left wing trade unionists in the early 20th century

There’s an old saying that power corrupts, and that absolute power corrupts absolutely

In the second part of our series Matthew Cookson looks at the battle in the Labour Party in the 1950s

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A new exhibition reveals much about Western artists’ shifting attitudes to the East, writes Jonathan Maunder

Adeola Johnson looks at the new album from the polyrhythmic revolutionary rappers from Philadelphia

Lee Hall’s new play is based on a true story about a group of miners from Ashington in Northumberland who, in 1934, hired a professor to teach them art appreciation

Former minister Peter Hain has argued that Welsh Labour must move to the right, but his analysis is way off the mark, writes Huw Williams

Over 3,000 people protested last Saturday against plans to expand Heathrow airport

The UCU lecturers’ union conference in Manchester last week was dominated by discussion of how Labour’s neoliberal policies are harming education

Health bosses in Newcastle have created a storm of anger as they move to discipline leading trade unionist Yunus Bakhsh – despite doctors saying he is too ill to attend their hearing and urging the trust to delay its action

Adult education courses at the Bethnal Green Centre in east London are under threat

Some 200 people attended the biggest ever NUS Black Students conference in Coventry last weekend

Bus drivers in the Unite union working for CT Plus in Hackney, east London, struck on Monday morning over the sacking of Dennis Shine, a union rep

Unison union members now have an increasingly good prospect of a fight over pay in local government, this year

Thousands of Scottish council workers struck for 24 hours on Monday

Unison union activist John McDermott is facing an attack from his employer

Unions in the NHS are reflecting anger at the government’s three-year below-inflation pay offer

Leading health trade unionist Karen Reissmann is seeking nominations to the national executive of her Unison union

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