Issue: 1758
Dated: 21 Jul 2001
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inside Financial crisis hits Argentina After the riots - Reality of racism in Bradford Redundancies: fear and anger across BritainOUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE Support Genoa mass protests pages 8, 9 & 10 ...
Building to beat the BNP Widespread support for anti-Nazis
STOP PRIVATISATION protest @ new labour's conference DEMONSTRATE SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER BRIGHTON Initial sponsors: Globalise Resistance; Green Party; Socialist Alliance; John Leech; Dave Toomer; Mark Ser...
So said John Edmonds, general secretary of the GMB union, on Monday. He was commenting on the speech Tony Blair made about "reform" of public services. Blair was preparing for his love-in with George ...
GLOBAL WARMING is happening faster than experts thought, according to a report by the authoritative IPCC body of international climate scientists last week. Yet George Bush still refuses to back any ...
It showed the national significance of the fight. Firefighters are defending themselves and their union from a vicious management offensive. Peter Rogers is a black firefighter on Merseyside. He told ...
Rank and file workers must demand those words are turned into action. On the eve of the traditional heavy industry shutdown in Glasgow last week, BAE Systems announced it would axe over 1,000 jobs in...
This was the emotional plea from Adrienne Jemmott to the audience of 150 people waiting last Wednesday night to watch the film Injustice in Conway Hall, London. Adrienne Jemmott is the sister of Paul ...
TORTURE VICTIMS seeking asylum in Britain are being locked up in prisons. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees said last week that Britain is the only European Union state which locks up r...
Politicians and the press always denounce those who fight back, whether it's against racism or against the global corporations. When police shot down anti-capitalist protesters in Gothenburg, they to...
The number of children living in poverty did show a slight drop in 1999-2000. But statisticians at the Department for Work and Pensions said the correct interpretation over the whole period would be "...
PRESSURE IS growing for strikes in key sections of South African industry. The miners' NUM union has started a strike ballot at five leading gold and coal companies. Workers in Eskom, the power utilit...
The intifada is against Israel's oppression of Palestinians. Israel has shot people in cold blood, and bombed and bulldozed Palestinian homes and buildings.A month ago Israel's right wing prime minist...
What worries bodies like the IMF-and the G8 leaders meeting in Genoa this weekend-is not the hardship hitting the people of such countries. It is that Western banks will not get the interest payments...
So this week Bob Kiley, the chairman of London Transport, came under attack. Last year the London Transport board was specially "reshaped".These are the people who will have a crucial voice on whethe...
It reflected most people's abhorrence at the idea of segregation along racial lines. But it failed to explain either its extent or why it exists. The same message came from scores of white, Asian and...
STOP PRIVATISATION protest @ new labour's conference DEMONSTRATE SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER BRIGHTON Initial sponsors: Globalise Resistance; Green Party; Socialist Alliance; John Leech; Dave Toomer; Mark Ser...
Two rush hour Virgin trains with almost 1,000 passengers on board came within 30 yards of a collision last week. The emergency happened on the west coast main line near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire...
The police shot two men dead in the street in four days. Officers shot Andrew Kernan, a schizophrenic man, twice in the chest near his home in Wavertree, Liverpool, on Thursday of last week. Scotland...
Bush wants to "fast track" Son of Star Wars after a recent test over the Pacific showed the missile defence might work. It would mean any missile fired at the US could be shot down. So the US could t...
THE ANTI-capitalist movement has developed astonishingly in the 20 months since the great anti World Trade Organisation protests at Seattle. In every country in the world significant minorities of peo...
All the estates in Brunshaw were council homes until the council pushed through privatisation. I campaigned against the transfer of council housing to private landlords. With the transfer of their ho...