Workers' Liberty

According to the Treasury at least 2.5 million British households (around one in ten) suffer from fuel poverty (Energywatch puts the figure at 4 million, 16% of all households).

Despite opposition from anti-censorship campaigners, on 9 May a new ban on “violent pornography” came into force.

Barack Obama's clinching of the Democratic presidential nomination raises a variety of issues for socialists.

• TEACHERS: The Executive of the National Union of Teachers on 29 May considered alternative timetables for a ballot for discontinuous strike action to continue the pay campaign.

Governments of advanced capitalist economies are coming to terms with a significant growth in the number of people living longer, which, combined with low birth rates adds to ageing populations.

According to the Daily Mail, “the GMB trade union has already taken the extraordinary step of discussing at its last executive council meeting whether its two representatives on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) should be indemnified against financial loss in the event Labour goes bankrupt”.

Over three thousand people opposed to Heathrow expansion marched on Saturday 31 May from Hatton Cross to Sipson, the village which would be destroyed were a third runway to be built.

A supporter of Education Not for Sale in Huddersfield was attacked by the far right on Friday morning on her way to work.

Despite the exam season, about 75 activists attended "Reclaim the Campus", a conference sponsored by Education Not for Sale on 17 May.

On 2 June, Hassan Juma’a, president of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), made an appeal for support to the world labour movement.

25,000 dockers at all 29 ports across the West Coast of the USA staged an 8-hour strike on 1 May calling for an immediate end to the occupation of Iraq.

Two years after the great uprising, in Oaxaca, Mexico, Section 22 of the Sindicato Nacional de los Trabajadores (SNTE) teachers union has mounted a fresh 21 day long strike demanding an end to politic

Ed Maltby reports from Paris

Gemma Short replies to “Innuendo in the contract”, Solidarity 3, 132.

Matt Cooper reviews A Good Soul of Szechuan (at the Young Vic, London, until 28 June)

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in works by the German Marxist playwright, Bertolt Brecht. This new translation of his A Good Soul of Szechuan has met with predictable abuse from the right wing press, but it is more surprising to see it attacked in the Observer by Nick Cohen for being Stalinist propaganda, and his plays therefore being of no worth.

I’m not old enough to remember Mary Whitehouse’s campaigning years, only the jubilation of my film lecturer informing us she’d kicked the bucket a few years earlier — he filled us in on her puritanical, anti-gay, anti-sex crusades.

JB Lenoir from the Chicago blues movement in the 1950s recorded several LPs using acoustic guitar, sometimes accompanied by Willie Dixon on the acoustic bass or drums. His songs commented on political issues such as racism and the Vietnam War, which was unusual for this period. His Alabama blues recording had a song that stated:

In 1968 I was student at Cambridge university.

When the government unveiled its massive Counter-Terrorism Bill in January it promised to introduce "tough new measures to protect the public." The claim to toughness is beyond dispute but to what ext

A discussion article by Chris Ford (AWL and LRC National Committee) on the current crisis of workers’ representation.

“Your da is goan to be hung!

Means versus ends

About 400 students and academics protested at Nottingham University on 28 May against the attempts currently underway to deport Hicham Yezza, a former university student now employed on the campus.

Dear Brother Woodley,