Issue: 1719
Dated: 21 Oct 2000
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FOUR KILLED. Thirty injured. Another 80 "walking wounded". A train's twisted and wrecked carriages strewn across the track. Yet another fatal crash on Britain's privatised railways...
MOST PENSIONERS' lives have not improved under New Labour. More than a million elderly people feel trapped at home and can go for weeks without speaking to anyone, according to a survey...
THE NAZI National Front has called a picket of a refugee hostel in Thanet, near Margate in Kent, this weekend in an attempt to whip up more hatred in the town...
SPECIALISTS IN infant feeding have accused the World Health Organisation (WHO) of putting its relationships with corporate sponsors before public health. They claim they were not allowed to discuss a...
Then Egypt and other Arab states launched a surprise attack on Israel on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Meanwhile the Arab oil producers used the crisis to push up the price of oil...
OVER THE last week you have sent in over �14,849 for our appeal...
NEW LABOUR "Homelessness Tsar" Louise Casey is threatening to cut funding to any homeless charity which doesn't back the government's campaign to urge people not to give money to street beggars...
Some 16,000 people packed a rally for US Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader..
MERSEYRAIL GUARDS have voted to strike over workplace safety. Guards are angry that management is not doing enough to protect them against violent rail users...
A NEW report on racism has sent the right wing press into an absolute frenzy. The press picked out one passage in the 400-page report..
TRADE AND industry secretary Stephen Byers has referred the takeover of the Biwater pipe factory in Clay Cross back to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The OFT originally gave the go ahead...
AROUND 800 workers at Rexam Glass, in Barnsley struck for a day last week over pay. The workers, members of the TGWU and AEEU unions, are demanding a 5 percent rise...
SWP news
THE BIGGEST general strike in Greece for eight years brought private and public sector workplaces grinding to a halt on Tuesday..
BT workers in London could be set to ballot for action...
MANAGEMENT AT the FloPlast factory in Kent have agreed to talks over union recognition. The move comes after workers staged three one-day strikes demanding their GPMU union is recognised...
TALKS over the Middle East taking place in Egypt produced a fragile deal as Socialist Worker went to press. But any "peace" that does not address the grave injustice Palestinians have suffered will be...
THE EXCELLENT new film Billy Elliot is set against the background of the 1984-5 miners' strike. The year long strike was one of the greatest ever working class struggles, and a turning point in recent...
THE FIRST stage of the election for general secretaryship of the civil servants' PCS union was to finish at the end of this week...
WHAT NEXT for the revolution in Serbia? Milosevic has been forced out, but the battle about the future of the country is still raging...
ENGLAND'S BIGGEST council landlord is in turmoil over plans to privatise all its 90,000 homes...
THE CRISIS in the health service is hitting hard this October-three months before the peak mid-winter period. More than 15 percent of nurses' positions in London are vacant ...
THE COMMITTEE to Defend Asylum Seekers national meeting last Sunday agreed to heighten pressure on the government's asylum seekers policies, particularly its voucher system...
THE HIDDEN hand of the market will never work without the hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas...
GLOBALISATION AND free market economic policies are uniting the workers of the world-with stress. A new report by the International Labour Organisation says..
CHEVRON AND Texaco, the second and third largest oil companies in the US, announced a $43 billion merger plan this week...