Respect councillor Michael Lavalette from Preston introduced a discussion on Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).
Whenever women have organised successfully as part of a wider movement for change they have won democratic advances—the right to vote, to divorce, to control their sexuality, to work without being harassed, and so on.
Angela Phillips played a key role in organising a 50,000-strong TUC demonstration against the Corrie Bill, the third attempt to restrict abortion rights, in 1979.
‘The question of abortion threw itself at us. The law changed in 1967. But MPs who opposed abortion just would not let the issue lie. One after another, they tried to introduce amendments to the legislation.
It is more than evident that US forces are committing daily acts of genocide in Iraq. As we write, these crimes are being perpetrated against the city of Fallujah.
THE real face of New Labour’s "modernisation" of the NHS was revealed last week as a firm of hard-nosed New York based business troubleshooters was brought in to sort out the growing financial crisis at the first failing foundation trust.
AS NEXT month’s anniversary of the worst disaster to hit London’s tube approaches, the government is busy trying to rip up safety regulations introduced to prevent it ever being repeated.
When a mainstream newspaper relaunches itself, its primary concern is the advertising revenue it can generate. Its readers come a poor second.
When Frederick Engels wrote about women’s liberation, he didn’t only speak of equality. He also spoke of a world in which sexual relations would not governed by economic necessity or stifling morality, but would be really free.
THE IRAQI Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) leadership appears to have succeeded in convincing some union leaders in Britain that it is a staunch opponent of the occupation. Alas, this self projected image is false.
Next week US voters will be presented with a choice between two openly pro-war and big business candidates, George Bush and John Kerry. The anti-corporate, pro-union challenger, Ralph Nader, has been barred from even standing in key states like Pennsylvania.
