Issue 2537 | September 2011

Though barely reported in the mainstream press, evidence continues to mount that US, not Taliban, intransigence is the real barrier to a peace deal to end the war in Afghanistan.

Navy medic jailed for seven months.

Hundreds of Travellers face eviction.

Action taken at detention centres.

Hywel Davies casts a skeptical eye over plans to revive coal mining in Wales.

"Festival against the cuts" comes to the Fringe.

Cuts and compulsory redundancies to end.

PN remembers Peggy Seeger's classic song "Carry Greenham Home" - and the action that inspired it.

Reports from activists north and south of the river on the London riots and community responses

Kathy Kelly on courtyard life and courtyard death in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Michael Pooler reflects on the “Pedal: 100 Days to Palestine” project that took him to communities of change and resistance across Europe

Milan Rai looks back at PN Summer Camp 2011.

In an article looking back at the riots of 1985, Steve Platt considers not just the thoughts and feelings of the participants on all sides, but those of PN readers too.