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...

South Africa

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

Deep disillusion at New Labour's core

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...

Teachers' message to the government

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...

Crisis threatens cars, steel, textiles, shipyards... Act now to save jobs

Strike to shut Ford across EuropeOccupy Rover to keep out alchemyStop New Labour giving in to the fat cats

Quarter of a million jobs gone under Labour

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.