THE government is deeply worried about the civil servants' strike. That's why on Tuesday of this week it appealed for more talks with the union's biggest section set to strike.
'CIVIL SERVANTS do not vote to take strike action lightly, but the time has come for a decent living wage for all. The image of civil servants as bowler-hatted Sir Humphreys on fat cat pay and a huge pension is wrong. Almost 15,000 civil servants earn less than £10,000 a year.
"IT WAS a treat to be on the Land Rover picket last weekend," says Louise, one of the Socialist Worker sellers who went to offer solidarity with the workers battling for higher pay.
Nearly a thousand workers on the picket line. And that was before the one-day strike at Land Rover's Solihull and Gaydon plants called for Monday of next week.
"Sainsbury's – making life taste bitter." That is the message workers have scrawled on the locker room wall inside the supermarket's distribution depot in Haydock, north west England.
Tell us about growing up in Liverpool after the Second World War.
I got involved when Laurie Flynn, who was working on Socialist Worker, dragged me up to the trial in Shrewsbury. He'd gone up there week in and week out, sometimes day in and day out.
This month saw the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Caribbean republic of Haiti after a revolutionary uprising against slavery.
"Stop privatisation". "No war in South Asia". "Dalit untouchable rights". "Debt domination is human rights violation". "Power to the people". "Another world is possible". "Free Palestine". "A socialist world is possible".
A RECENT headline in the Financial Times read, \"Blair No Longer In Control On Two Fronts\". The two fronts are the Iraq war, in particular the Hutton report, and the vote that will take place shortly on top-up fees for universities.
OVER 100,000 activists and trade unionists will come together to join the debates and discussions at the World Social Forum (WSF), which is taking place in the city of Mumbai (Bombay), India.
ON 1 January 1994 the presidents of Canada, Mexico and the US called a press conference to announce the creation of the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA).
