The Egyptian army and police have sent thugs using clubs and an armoured car to smash up the camp of martyrs’ families and their supporters in Tahrir Square today. Several activists have been arrested.

Families of people murdered by Hosni Mubarak’s regime during the revolution, regarded as martyrs of the struggle, have been camped in the square since 8 July. They are calling for justice and for the officers who murdered their children to be prosecuted.

Demonstrations, protests and occupations played a key role in igniting and continuing our revolution. On their own, these tactics will not bring victory in the battle. You have the power to win this fight and finish off the regime, not only by participating in the demonstrations, but by organising strikes in the workplaces, companies and factories and supporting the occupations in the squares on Fridays.

The Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya was designed for 90,000 people.

It now holds 380,000 who have fled famine in Somalia. Aid workers are terrified this will rise to 450,000.

Anders Behring Breivik’s terror attack is no aberration.

There is a long history of right wing terrorists targeting anyone who doesn’t fit their twisted view of society.

They include:

Ten years ago huge anti-capitalist protests in the Italian city of Genoa shook the world’s leaders.

The UK ruling class is in disarray. Its web of corruption, bribery and lies are exposed—and it just keeps getting worse. Simon Basketter looks at the key things we’ve learnt this week

Surprisingly, some on the right fear the end of the radical president’s rule

Wherever you go among working people in Ireland you hear complaints about the trade unions. ‘The union let us down’, ‘the unions have done nothing’, ‘the unions are useless’ etc. There is no doubt that these complaints are justified.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions, SIPTU and the other unions have failed to give any kind of significant lead.This failure is one of the main reasons why there has not so far been mass resistance by the Irish working class to the bank bail-outs and cuts.

I won't miss the News of the World. I'll just go back to my old paper, Andrex. Meanwhile, I'll perch myself in front of the telly for chortling. It's at times like these I wish I could spell 'schadenfreude'.

As I write, Rebekah Brooks is due at the cop-shop to have a natter with Knacker of the Yard. She has passed this way before.

Six years ago, she was arrested at 4am and held for eight hours and fingerprinted and DNA-sampled after her then-husband, Ross Kemp, dialled 999 from their Battersea home to report he was being assaulted.