WHO DEMANDED this week that workers should work longer hours, saying, "An obsession with the 35-hour week is now part of Europe’s economic problem, and not the solution"?
THE CWU postal and telecom workers’ union is encouraging members to come along to the European Social Forum to be held in London from 14 to 17 October.
THE OLYMPICS seem to be an innocent enough event. Who could object to people having some fun and watching sport? Won’t ordinary people benefit if the Olympics come to London and areas are regenerated?
USUALLY WHEN the Olympics are staged by one of the big countries there is an appeal to people to "rally round the flag", and highlighting the medals the home team could win.
NEW LABOUR may have given up on tackling the growing gulf between rich and poor, but it still pretends to be progressive on issues of inequality between men and women.
IN BOLIVIA in October 2003 hundreds of thousands of workers and peasants surround the governmental palace in La Paz. They demanded the resignation of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozado, the country’s hated millionaire president. Within days, he was forced to resign and flee to Miami in disgrace.
The Second World War was even more barbaric than the First. If one country felt that barbarity more than any other, it was Poland.
A HUGE cheer went up outside the election count as the full scale of Respect’s victory in Tower Hamlets, east London, became known.
JOHN BLOOM has just been selected as the Respect candidate in the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election which is expected this autumn.
CIVIL SERVICE workers defied the government and beat their own expectations with a rock-solid strike last week.
ON 15 August Venezuelans will vote in a referendum on the government of Hugo Chavez. But this is no ordinary vote. The atmosphere in the country is electric. And the divisions that separate supporters and opponents of Chavez run much deeper than a simple difference of political opinion.
