Issue: 1694
Dated: 29 Apr 2000
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Crisis threatens cars, steel, textiles, shipyards...
THE RESPONSE to Estelle Morris was just one sign of the gulf that now exists between the government and most of the half a million teachers in Britain...
THE CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions, COSATU, has called a general strike for Wednesday 10 May against the ANC government's business-friendly economic policies
NEW LABOUR is going to do badly in the biggest electoral test before the next general election. In London on 4 May everyone expects Ken Livingstone to defeat New Labour's Frank Dobson...
THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) conference voted for a campaign, including a one day strike, against the government's payment by results scheme on Tuesday...
Strike to shut Ford across EuropeOccupy Rover to keep out alchemyStop New Labour giving in to the fat cats
MANUFACTURING industry in Britain is bleeding to death. That's what the leader of one of Britain's biggest unions says. John Edmonds of the general workers' GMB union said this week, "Ministers must wake up. UK industry is not facing an inflation crisis or a sterling crisis. It is facing a manufacturing crisis on a scale not seen since the dark days of Thatcherism." Edmonds spoke out with thousands of car workers at Ford and Rover facing the sack. Asset-strippers Alchemy looked set to take Rover over at the end of this week, and multinational giant Ford is set to announce the effective closure of its Dagenham plant in Essex.
MANUFACTURING industry in Britain is bleeding to death. That's what the leader of one of Britain's biggest unions says...
Over the Easter weekend Socialist Worker sellers took to the streets campaigning in defence of refugees...
THERE ARE just a few days left in the campaign to get the socialist message out across London...
POLITICIANS AND most of the press want working people to blame asylum seekers for the housing crisis in Britain, and for the lack of decent services, benefits or jobs...
THE BOLIVIAN army killed six people earlier this month when it opened fire on demonstrators protesting against Bechtel privatising their water....
BARBIE AND Ken are a threat to public morals. That's the view of police in the quiet Dumfrieshire village of Moniaive...
THE CASE of Elian Gonzalez dominated US politics and the media this week, after a government raid to hand the six year old Cuban boy over to his father...
I WAS shocked at press reports of New Labour saying pensioners were "racist"....
THE POLICE and much of the press have spent weeks demonising the May Day protests due to take place across Britain. In many areas there are heavy police restrictions on marches...
THE CENTRE-left Italian government has been thrown into crisis after prime minister Massimo D'Alema resigned last week. D'Alema, a former Communist turned Blairite, threw in the towel...
THE MAINSTREAM press in the US and Britain were quick to dismiss the protests against the World Bank and the IMF in Washington last week as a failure...
SCHOOL children across Britain are facing a nightmare regime of high pressure tests...
POLITICIANS AND the media say that president Robert Mugabe is the man who has wrecked Zimbabwe...
THE RIGHT wing press have treated farmer Tony Martin, convicted last week of the murder of Fred Barras, as a "hero".
THE MAINSTREAM press in the US and Britain were quick to dismiss the protests against the World Bank and the IMF in Washington last week as a failure...