GREECE: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES

More than 2,000 people occupied the street outside the Israeli embassy in West London today to protest at the bombing of the Gaza Strip

Over 500 people attended a vigil in Glasgow yesterday as part of a 24-hour response to the Israeli bombardment of Gaza coordinated by a range of groups

Around 450 people braved a cold evening in Preston on Sunday to demonstrate against the Israeli attacks on Gaza

Israel has launched a barbaric attack on the Gaza Strip killing over 200 people, including scores of women and children

Israeli F-16 bombers are raining down missiles upon Gaza, one of the most densely populated regions in the world

We regret to report the death of our friend and comrade Gary Kelly

Over 2,000 people took to the streets of Athens on Saturday 20 December against the Greek state’s attacks on migrants

Up to 50,000 postal workers jobs were put at risk yesterday after the unelected Secretary of State for Business Lord Peter Mandelson announced that he plans to sell off parts of the Royal Mail

Mass protests and strikes are continuing in Greece, two weeks after the police killing of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos

An emergency security court in Egypt has jailed 22 textile workers and their supporters for their role in the uprising in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla al-Kubra

Some 120 mostly Asian women workers mounted a mass picket this morning at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals factory in north west London on the first of three strike days over pay

An occupation has been taking place for several days at the New School University in New York City

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The anger that exploded in Greece following the police killing of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos is still raging

Up to 2,000 postal workers at seven sorting offices in England are set to strike on Friday of this week against the closures of their mail centres

“I was terrified - I thought that I was going to be shot like Jean Charles De Menezes

Key parts of the police account of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes are untrue, according to the jury that took part in the inquest into his death

Some comments on the shooting

In the end all it took was a well-aimed shoe to give George Bush his final humiliation in Iraq

Kim Howells, the former foreign office minster responsible for Afghanistan, has described the occupation of the country as corrupt “from top to bottom”

Anyone who hoped that the recent international climate treaty meeting in Poznan, Poland, would come up with a solution to climate change will be severely disappointed

Workers in Chicago have fought back over compensation and won

Tony Benn addressed a rally in Chesterfield last Saturday - for the first time since he stopped being the local MP in 2001

Around 300 workers and service users demonstrated outside Wallasey Town Hall in the Wirral, Merseyside, on Wednesday of last week against a drastic series of closures being proposed by the council

Council tenants in Winchester, southern England, are battling a major attack on council housing

The new Defend Council Housing (DCH) newspaper will be available soon

Gordon Brown has been stung by remarks from Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, who described Britain’s response to the economic crisis as “crass Keynesianism”

Next October the Irish people will be asked to vote once again on the European Union’s (EU) Lisbon Treaty

The German playwright Bertolt Brecht once asked, “What is the crime of robbing a bank compared to the crime of owning a bank?”

It was dubbed the sparkling jewel of the Persian Gulf - and held up as proof of the wonders of the free market

A general strike by millions of workers in the CGIL union federation against Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right wing government on Friday of last week was a big success

Over 120,000 parents, teachers, and school and university students have joined protests against the Irish government’s cuts to education

Chris Bambery examines how events of this year will affect 2009

Unemployment in Britain was set to pass two million over the Christmas period

Attacks on benefit claimants echo notions of the “undeserving poor”, writes Matthew Cookson

Anti-Vietnam war poetry reading

Adrian Mitchell reads Brecht at Marxism 2008

An asylum seeker living in Manchester, spoke to Ken Olende - his story shows the inhumane and illogical nature of the British government’s treatment of refugees

The cruel hypocrisy of the government’s approach to asylum was driven home last week as home secretary Jacqui Smith attempted to use the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe to tighten asylum laws

Revolutionary socialist Maria Styllou analyses the background to the mass rebellion, strikes and riots spreading through Greece following the police killing of a school student

A trade unionist and a student activist speak out

One of the high points of resistance in Greece is the Athens Polytechnic uprising of 1973, which helped to sweep away the right wing dictatorship that ruled the country

“If I don’t go out and fight fascism, I’ll just have to wait and fight it here

The princes, knights, peasants and pilgrims who answered the pope’s call for the First Crusade in 1095 were driven by many different motivations, writes Conor Kostick

Solidarity at Woolworths | Inspections and Baby P | March against benefit ‘reforms’ | Dishonest lawyers ripped off miners | Bullying rife in Royal Mail | Support for bus strike | Great footage of bank demo | Memories of Brian Rose | Terrorists are not jihadists | Blacklist gets the brush-off

Che Part One brings the politics of revolution to a new audience, writes Gareth Jenkins

Leading children’s author Alan Gibbons picks out are a few stocking fillers from the world of children’s books

Supertoys exhibition | Solaris | The 1960s: Did Newcastle really swing?

Recent changes in the way that lap dancing clubs are licensed are a step in the right direction for women’s rights, argues Siân Ruddick

Harold Pinter, who died on Christmas Eve, aged 78, was, arguably, the greatest English playwright of the 20th -century

Adrian Mitchell died at four in the morning of 20 December

Around 100 low paid workers at the Chemilines pharmaceuticals company in Wembley, north west London, are set to strike over wages on Tuesday of this week

“Public sector workers: brace yourselves for the pay squeeze”, a headline in the Financial Times newspaper warned recently

Some 250 drivers at First Hampshire and Dorset, based in Southampton, are set to hold two one-day strikes in the run-up to Christmas, with a third strike set for the new year

Workers at First Bus in Aberdeen have voted by 304 to 64 to accept an improved pay offer plus a one-off payment of £100 and full back pay to 1 April

London bus drivers are to lobby the mayor’s Question Time on Wednesday of this week as part of the ongoing campaign to win equal and higher pay across all London bus companies

Bus workers in the Unite union have vowed to oppose plans unveiled by Transport for London (TfL) to privatise East Thames Buses, London’s only publicly-owned bus operator

Drivers at Stagecoach Bluebird in north east Scotland have called off planned action after accepting a revised pay offer that takes basic pay to £9 an hour

Some 500 bus drivers employed by First Bus in Bradford were voting on a revised pay offer as Socialist Worker went to press

Unison union stewards in East North East Homes Leeds (ENEHL), voted overwhelmingly to resume industrial action in January, in a dispute over trade union rights and the victimisation of union activist John McDermott

The fascist British National Party (BNP) was thoroughly routed on Wednesday of last week when 300 people from Brighton & Hove shattered attempts to launch a BNP branch in the city

The government’s long-awaited independent review of the primary curriculum will disappoint anyone hoping to see an end to the hated SATs tests

Kirklees Unison union members in West Yorkshire have responded magnificently to the employer’s threat to sack and re-hire the whole workforce of 12,500

The construction union Ucatt has criticised the failure of the government to outline any plans to deal with the issue of pleural plaques

A strike by around 50 teachers at the Royal Docks School in Newham, east London, closed down the school on Wednesday of last week

Management at Scotland’s Herald group of newspapers have told workers that all staff will be made redundant and told to reapply for their jobs - but there will be around 30 fewer positions available

Supporters of the People Before Profit Charter held a meeting in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales on Wednesday of last week over job losses

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