The UK government has created a new profit source for security giant G4S and its partners: managing housing for asylum seekers. JOHN GRAYSON reports on a reckless experiment whose result is human misery.

On the evening of Tuesday 30 October a new asylum seeker sent from London, 250 miles north to a property in Thornaby, Stockton, found himself, along with four other asylum seekers, besieged by a crowd shouting racist abuse. They broke down the door and broke windows. This is the welcoming world of ‘dispersal’ for asylum seekers in the north east.

The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street will be celebrated on Sunday 2 October with a commemorative march and rally, and numerous other events organised by Cable Street 75 and supported by more than 40 organisations.

The Hope not Hate campaign are asking for support for their next Day of Action on Saturday 19 March.
Their recent Fear and HOPE report highlighted that economic insecurity was a key driver in support for right wing parties. As a response the HOPE not hate campaign is organising a day of action on Saturday 19 [...]

If you haven’t already done so you can protest about the BBC extending a hand of friendship to the BNP via the Hope not Hate website.
On Thursday afternoon (22 October) Hope not Hate are going to the BBC to deliver the Question Time presenter, David Dimbleby, thousands of messages of hope from supporters. “Your stories, [...]

More than 60 people filled the Working Class Movement Library in Salford on 30th May to see former POUM militia man Roma Marquez Santo unveil a plaque to the ILP’s Spanish Civil War volunteers.
In a moving speech Roma declared it an honour for people, like himself, who fought fascism in the 1930s to be remembered [...]

Christopher Hall explains what drove him to discover the untold stories of ILP volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War
In 2006 many new books were published and many events held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
As an historian and researcher on the Spanish Civil War for over [...]

Seventy years after the end of the Spanish Civil War the first ever memorial plaque commemorating the anti-fascist British and Irish volunteers who fought alongside George Orwell in the ILP Contingent is to be dedicated.
Two political veterans will do the honours: Sidney Robinson, an Independent Labour Party activist in the 1930s who chaired the Newport [...]

The veil debate obscures a bigger question, says BEN TURLEY. What place should faith have in our public life?
When, on 5 October 2006 in the Lancashire Times, Jack Straw started a debate about the wearing of the veil by Muslim women, he did so with characteristic modesty and equivocation. While Straw said that that the [...]

The British National Party won its fifth local council seat in a matter of months in Halifax in January, attracting a brief flurry of national media comment and political hand wringing. BEN TURLEY looks at what happened.

“Halifax is a wonderful place and its people are not racist,” Alice Mahon MP said the day after the [...]

Gypsies have become the object of increasingly racist, anti-immigration demonology over the last few years. As MATTHEW BROWN reports, they have been the one of the most victimised groups in society for centuries.
It could be any day in modern London. A tube pulls into King’s Cross underground station. The doors slide open and a young [...]