Five years ago, the biggest political protest in our history served to explode the myth of public apathy. Andrew Murray looks back.

Today’s ban by the government against the anti-war protest is a menace to everyone’s freedom, writes Andrew Murray.

The central banker was right, argues Andrew Murray: the attack on Iraq was about oil. But we don’t need him to tell us an attack on Iran will be for the same reason.

Brown is walking a tightrope over Iraq. He should remember that, down below, British soldiers are still dying, writes Andrew Murray.

The tests Gordon Brown will face are genuine independence for Iraq, an end to the Afghan adventure, and no support (political or military) for aggression against Iran. The Stop the War Coalition’s test is to ensure that he gives the right answers. By Andrew Murray.

Never mind the death and destruction – damage to the cause of liberal interventionism is what worries one columnist.

We are endlessly assured that there is no alternative to the present system and that socialism is dead. Real life suggests otherwise.

The rate at which wages have risen might panic the well-to-do, but to reduce the wealth gap 3.5% is not enough.

The gap between the public and parliament that Iraq has opened up must be bridged now argues Andrew Murray.

Saturday’s demonstration is an opportunity to confront the true authors of the Middle East crisis.

We don’t need an opinion poll to tell us that the anti-war movement has spread to almost all parts of society.

Professor Robert (‘Bob’) Rowthorn argues against immigration. We should expect better of the former Marxist economist.

Don’t be fooled by modish paeans from latter-day court historians to the empire on which the blood never dried.

What a pleasure to hear Tony Blair praising Paine, Hazlitt and Marx: the only shame, that it was in 1982.

While ministers decry the whole civil liberties debate, people in Britain are starving themselves in protest at their treatment.

The supposed ‘new political alignment’ will never split the left or set up a viable opposition to it.

The case against the Iraq war and occupation has been entirely vindicated. It must be brought to an end.

Why does David Cameron need to call for a ‘campaign for capitalism’? Because the system is unloved, as he has tacitly conceded.

Despite the propaganda campaign the public still view the Iraq invasion and the London bombings as cause and effect.

The front benches of both main parties would like to fight the forthcoming election on the Basil Fawlty principle of “don’t mention the war”.