UNITED WE WILL SMASH THE NAZI BNP

Up to 10,000 people took to the streets of London today to join the national march against the fascist British National Party (BNP)

Today 66 members of the NUT union at Pimlico School began a two-day strike

Joint secretary of Unite Against Fascism Weyman Bennett spoke to Socialist Worker about the rise of the BNP and about how we can defeat the fascists

The British National Party (BNP) has made some worrying electoral breakthroughs in recent years, winning council seats in a number of areas across Britain and a seat on the London assembly in May

Jon McClure from Reverend and the Makers is speaking out in the face of death threats by Nazis on the Stormfront internet bulletin board and other fascist websites

This Saturday’s anti-Nazi demonstration in London is only the start of the battle to stop the fascist British National Party (BNP)

The real aim of George Bush’s visit to Britain became clear on Monday when Gordon Brown announced more British troops for Afghanistan and “further sanctions” on Iran

The four-day strike over pay by tanker drivers supplying Shell petrol stations showed the power that workers have to disrupt the normal running of the system

Postal workers could start a national strike later this year after delegates at last week’s CWU union conference voted unanimously for action against attacks on their pensions, threats to shut scores of offices, and the menace of privatisation

Over 12,000 Network Rail maintenance workers in the RMT union struck last weekend in a dispute over harmonisation of terms and conditions

The US military is attempting to cover up a great crime taking place in the Iraqi city of Fallujah

Rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has announced that his movement will no longer take part in any government that supports the US occupation

Gordon Brown narrowly scraped home in a crucial parliamentary vote on 42-day internment last week

The existing terrorism laws have the potential for miscarriages of justice

Irish voters have dealt a decisive blow to attempts to create a corporate, militarised European Union (EU) superstate by voting to reject the Lisbon treaty

Gordon Brown’s government has pressed on with the parliamentary vote to ratify the Lisbon treaty on the European Union (EU), despite Irish voters rejecting it

We finally have an opportunity to extend abortion rights in Britain

Spiralling food and fuel prices across the world hit home this week as the Bank of England announced that the government’s preferred inflation measure had climbed above the 3 percent barrier

A new crime report commissioned by the government shows how far Labour has abandoned any notion that the criminal justice system should attempt to rehabilitate offenders

When he became prime minister the one thing Gordon Brown had going for him was that he was not Tony Blair

The steady erosion of democracy in Britain has been exposed by the way police handled last Sunday’s demonstration against George Bush

It is a sign of just how far to the right New Labour has moved when it can be challenged on civil liberties by the Tory shadow home secretary, the hard right David Davis MP

Comments on the Irish EU referendum

Fascist violence has spread since the election of Italy’s new right wing government in April

A few weeks ago US presidential hopeful Barack Obama travelled to Miami to speak to the Cuban American Foundation, a right wing organisation much loved by George Bush

Alex Callinicos considers whether fascism is a real threat today in the era of neoliberalism, globalisation, and the internet

The background, the occupation and the trial explained by leading Irish activist

Gordon Brown tells us that ‘economic growth’ is the solution to poverty, but in reality this growth benefits the rich, writes Esme Choonara

The part played by the West Indians in the Second World War is finally being recognised

Our rulers can’t fool all of the people all of the time, argues Sadie Robinson

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A new exhibition, Street and Studio, says much about the way photographers see their subjects, says Andy Jones

This play tells the true story of Janusz Korczak, children’s author, paediatrician and social experimenter, who was the director of a Jewish orphanage in 1930s Poland

Al Green has spent the last two years putting together an array of well-known singers, musicians and producers to complete an album with a classic soul sound

Phoolan Devi was the most feared bandit in India in the 1970s

Withins School | Lady Margaret Primary School | Pimlico School

Members of the UCU lecturers’ union at Keele university have won a victory in their fight against threatened redundancies in the School of Economic and Management Studies (SEMS)

The Unite union held a local pay meeting for bus workers in north east London last week

Strike action at the Hackney CT Plus bus garage in east London planned for Friday of last week was called off at the last minute pending talks with management

The National Shop Stewards Network is holding its national conference in central London on Saturday 28 June

A motion from London branches that sought to rule out any possible merger between the CWU and the Unite union was passed after a card vote

Delegates to the telecoms section of last week’s CWU conference fired a warning shot at British Telecom (BT), which is looking to attack their pension scheme

Debate about the future relationship between the CWU union and the Labour Party formed the backdrop to many debates at the union’s conference last week

The strike by members of the PCS and Prospect civil service workers’ unions at the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI) over below-inflation pay severely hit the running of the museum

Over 150 tenants, leaseholders and local trade unionists met in Lambeth, south London, on Wednesday of last week to organise opposition to the council’s attempt to privatise the remaining council housing stock

The battle over public sector pay and anger against the Labour government shaped the debates at the Unison union local government service group conference in Bournemouth this week

The election to the service group executives of Unison saw left candidates poll well

There was a fringe meeting against the witch-hunt of activists in Unison set for Thursday lunchtime at the conference

Firefighters to ground airlines | Fight the cuts in the HMRC | Standing up for Eddie Fleming | BAA workers pensions ballot

Over 30 people demonstrated outside the London embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday of this week over attempts to prevent the Pakistani TV channel, Geo TV, from broadcasting from Dubai in the UAE

Members of the Unite union at the Education Institute of Scotland (EIS) have voted by 100 percent for strikes over their salary settlement, which should have been paid from 1 April

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